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Futurist, Humanist and Public Thinker, Advocate for #thegoodfuture, Keynote Speaker: http://Gerdtube.com New film: http://LookupNow.tv Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3zdgkaQ My Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/28rXSKt
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 18h
here's a snippet from my recent keynote on AI and the Future of Humanity at the Agenda.cy event. have a look at youtu.be/177gP5HIqkk?...
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 2h
Video, images and slides from my Keynote at Digital Agenda Cyprus: AI and the Human Future – Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker
Video, images and slides from my Keynote at Digital Agenda Cyprus: AI and the Human Future – Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 7h
More Articles Are Now Created by AI Than Humans buff.ly/TU3NT46 via @shellypalmer. This is a seriously bad development. maybe the day will come that we have to shut down the internet completely to avoid complete distortion and manipulation?
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 14h
Derek Thompson makes some good arguments: Why AI Is Not a Bubble*
Why AI Is Not a Bubble*
*The best arguments I've heard on the $10 trillion question of the moment
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 18h
here's a snippet from my recent keynote on AI and the Future of Humanity at the Agenda.cy event. have a look at youtu.be/177gP5HIqkk?...
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 19h
wow quite a guitar collection
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 20h
New keynote video at Digital Agenda Cyprus last week! Artificial Intelligence and beyond: How to design The Good Future. That was a great event! youtu.be/177gP5HIqkk?...
Artificial Intelligence and beyond: How to design The Good Future (Keynote)
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 1d
🌊 The Fourth Wave is Here: Are You Ready? 🌊 Alvin Toffler buff.ly/bYoZMSh
🌊 The Fourth Wave is Here: Are You Ready? 🌊 Alvin Toffler
Hello, I am Alvin Toffler, futurist and author of The Third Wave. In my work, I explored the societal shifts brought by the agricultural, industrial, and information revolutions. Today, I must urge…
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 1d
Your mindset contains your future! Don't give up on optimism. Despite everything!
Your mindset contains your future! Don't give up on optimism. Despite everything!
Explore the frontier of technological innovation with futurist Gerd Leonhard as he unveils an inspiring vision of the future in this enlightening video. Gerd provides a profound analysis on how AI…
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 1d
"Bottom line: No one under 18 should get access to an AI companion. We age-gate porn, alcohol, and the military but have decided it’s OK for children to have relationships with a processor whose objective is to keep them staring at screens, sequestered from organic relationships"
Love Algorithmically | No Mercy / No Malice
For six hours, my AI avatar roamed the Earth. I receive 20 to 30 thoughtful emails a day asking for professional and investment advice. I can only answer a fraction of them. One of my former graduate…
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 2d
2025: The end of our world as we know it | Peter Leyden buff.ly/CwpAe4n way cool
2025: The end of our world as we know it | Peter Leyden
"We're living in an extraordinary moment in history. We are at a moment here in 2025 where we have world historic game-changing technologies now starting to scale." Subscribe to Freethink on YouTube…
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 2d
wow: 9 years ago::::: The future of content, technology and society: Futurist Speaker Gerd PINGHelsinki Keynote
The future of content, technology and society: Futurist Speaker Gerd PINGHelsinki Keynote
My talk at PINGHelsinki May 13 2016, on the future of content, media, technology and humanity. If machines do all of our work in the future, what will we do? What are the unique human values of story…
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 3d
amazing stats here, via the FT::: How AI became our personal assistant buff.ly/ngW32GE
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 3d
Retail Day buff.ly/ViGLi7S with Deloitte and GS1 - meet me for my keynote in Mexico City this week Thursday Oct 16th
Retail Day
Nos complace invitarle a nuestro próximo evento de Retail Day 2025: Estrategia, innovación y confianza, un espacio exclusivo donde destacados(as) líderes de la industria compartirán sus visiones…
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 4d
Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia
Money talks: the deep ties between Twitter and Saudi Arabia
The long read: Saudi Arabia’s investment in Twitter increased its influence in Silicon Valley while being used at home to shut down critics of the regime
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 5d
“Seeking information has grown more rapidly than any other category over the past 12 months. ChatGPT is now regularly being used to look for products, people and current events, in a direct threat to traditional search engines.”

How AI became our personal assistant
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 5d
MUST WATCH #aislop.
AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet bit.ly/42xRQoN from Kurzgesagt :)))
AI Slop Is Destroying The Internet
IT’S HERE ✨ The 10th edition of the Human Era Calendar: https://shop.kgs.link/12026 Join us in 12,026 to celebrate humanity’s connection to the stars with a year of cosmic stories and gorgeous…
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 6d
L.A. County considers declaring state of emergency to fight back against ICE raids
L.A. County considers declaring state of emergency to fight back against ICE raids
The move would pave the way for an eviction moratorium for households that have lost income due to the immigration raids.
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 6d
“More than 18bn messages are sent to ChatGPT every week. In just three years, OpenAI’s chatbot has been used by more than one in 10 people and at a rate of adoption the world wide web did not achieve until the early 2000s

How AI became our personal assistant
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 6d
“We frame economic power as a contest between capital and labor, but the real star of the American economy is consumer spending, which accounts for 68% of GDP”

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Government shutdowns have been normalized. Since 1976, we’ve seen 20 funding gaps, resulting in 10 government shutdowns. It’s a form of economic strike — just not an effective one, as shutdowns…
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 7d
People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news. | Nieman Journalism Lab buff.ly/INcSJ0k
People are using ChatGPT twice as much as they were last year. They’re still just as skeptical of AI in news.
"For news organizations, our findings are in some ways bitter medicine."
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 7d
wow... 13 years ago, my Do-Lecture in Wales: buff.ly/Dyg12hV Gerd Leonhard | The Journey From Egosystem To Ecosystem
Gerd Leonhard | The Journey From Egosystem To Ecosystem
In the past, companies worked on their own. But in the future, the ego will have to be forgotten. The future for companies is to collaborate. — Gerd Leonhard is a well-known Futurist and Author of…
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 7d
OpenAI’s Sora 2 is an unholy abomination
OpenAI’s Sora 2 is an unholy abomination
The age of AI slop is upon us.
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 8d
Superhuman AI: If Anyone Builds It ... Everyone Dies? | Semafor Tech
Superhuman AI: If Anyone Builds It ... Everyone Dies? | Semafor Tech
For AI researchers Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares, authors of the new, unambiguously titled book If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies, it’s time to freak out about the technology. “Humans have a…
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 8d
How AI Could Cause the 7th Mass Extinction
How AI Could Cause the 7th Mass Extinction
Detailed sources: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1q8WFfBrqNTzgL-kFhYrqqJc0NqpkJBLBd_XMKtR88Vw/edit?tab=t.0 If this resonated with you, here’s how you can help today:…
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Gerd Leonhard @futuristgerd.com · 8d
Ex-OpenAI researcher dissects one of ChatGPT's delusional spirals | TechCrunch buff.ly/rUia9xy
Ex-OpenAI researcher dissects one of ChatGPT's delusional spirals | TechCrunch
A former OpenAI researcher looked into how ChatGPT can mislead delusional users about their reality and its own capabilities.
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