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On the long history and possible future of Europe's uneasy relationship to American automation.
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Author: Tallulah Richards
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

After a long summer break, FARSIGHT co-hosts Casper and August get meta with the Swedish superfuturist, Anders Sandberg, in the studio, reflecting on the future of their profession.
What kinds of societal conditions give rise to successful futurists? How has the role of the futurist changed over the past few decades? In what ways might using AI in futures studies either aid (or inhibit) the core tenets of working with the unknown?
Hosts: Casper Skovgaard Petersen & August Leo Liljenberg
Guest: Anders Sandberg
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Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies

As generative AI disrupts the balance between effort and reward in writing and creativity, shame nevertheless remains at work, as a hidden mechanism of social control. Might a cultural backlash to generative AI cause widespread 'chat-shaming', and if so, how?
Written and narrated by Toke Hanghøj
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Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.

AI promises a pornography without abuse, without performers, without limits – and, apparently, without much imagination. Might the biggest disappointment of AI porn be how boring it is?
This article was first featured in Issue 17: The Future of Vice. Subscribe to FARSIGHT by becoming a Futures Member at the Institute.
Author: Josh Sims
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.

Expectations are that AI will automate a significant percentage of the knowledge economy’s workforce and make their jobs redundant. We dig into the futurist toolbox to interrogate this assumption – punctuated by a provocative scenario snippet from 2030.
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Author: Toke Hanghøj
Narration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies