Looking towards a brave new (virtual) world.

By 2040, it is widely expected that artificial intelligence will profoundly transform many aspects of our society and daily lives, reshaping industries, society, and human experiences across the board. AI will become ubiquitous and this current generation will see as a natural part of their socio-economic landscape much like mobile phones have become. This technology will become seamlessly integrated into routines through advanced personal assistants, wearables, and potentially even brain-computer interfaces (see Neuralink). These technologies will offer tailored predictions and automations, fundamentally altering how we interact with information and our environment as well as changing the way we interface with each other as a society. In this article we look at what might be…