Daily tasks will get easier, while our personal relationships, privacy, mental health, and spiritual lives will suffer, according to an Elon University report on the impact of AI by 2040.
Artificial intelligence is about to make the pursuit of happiness a lot harder.
AI will most likely simplify our daily tasks, but it will degrade our personal lives, according to a new report from Elon University. Errands will take less time, but we’ll see a dip in privacy, relationship quality, mental health, and spiritual pursuits.
Experts polled by the university’s Imagining the Digital Future Center warn of a shift in focusing our “human affection, desires, and attention on digital products,” keeping us from enjoying the benefits of human contact.
Elon spoke with 328 industry experts from a “wide range of fields” who work in public policy, at think tanks, and in academia, research, private business, and more. They responded to at least one of 25 questions aimed to capture a “broad array of opinions” about the impact of AI by 2040.
On a more hopeful note, the experts predict AI will have a more positive than negative impact on healthcare through new diagnostic tools and treatment research.
