Narrated articles and conversations with the world's foremost futures thinkers, delivered to you by FARSIGHT, a quarterly publication by the Copenhagen Institut...
With AI, all the products of human creativity become malleable. Stories and images flow seamlessly across formats – in constant flux and open to reimagination. What does this all mean for the role of human creators? Creative Lead of GenMedia Resarch at Google DeepMind, Matthieu Lorrain, answers our questions and paints a picture of a future-that-might-be.Subscribe to FARSIGHT by becoming a Futures Member at the Institute.Author: Sofie HvitvedNarrator: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.
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The Tech Coup
There’s a coup against democracy happening, says Dutch politician Marietje Schaake, who warns against the growing influence of tech giants on society. But if Europe wants to use the technology on its own terms it will come at a cost.This article was originally published by MandagMorgen.It has been translated and edited for use in FARSIGHT.Subscribe to FARSIGHT by becoming a Futures Member at the Institute.Author: Peter HesseldahlNarration: Manya Lind (with ElevenLabs AI)Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
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Futurism Has Become Reactionary w/ Karim Jebari
More from Stockholm. We visit futurist and philosopher Karim Jebari from the Mimir Centre for Long-Term Futures Research at Sweden's Institute for Futures Studies. Jebari researches transhumanism, our future in space, climate change, and other existential risks. He believes that futurism has become reactionary and backward-looking. Why? We get Jebari's answer (and much more).Subscribe to FARSIGHT by becoming a Futures Member at the InstituteGuest: Karim JebariHosts: Casper Skovgaard Petersen & August Leo LiljenbergPublished by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
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Gold, Guns, and Greenbacks
The history (and possible future) of dollar hegemony.Subscribe to FARSIGHT by becoming a Futures Member at the Institute.Author: August Leo LiljenbergNarration: August Leo Liljenberg (with ElevenLabs AI)Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
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Visiting Sweden’s Superfuturist w/ Dr Anders Sandberg
We travel to Stockholm to visit Dr Anders Sandberg at the Mimir Centre for Long Term Futures Research – part of the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies – for a conversation on existential risks posed by AI, the state of futures studies today, being a polymath in the Nordics, and why there are so many Swedish futurists...
Sandberg holds a PhD in computational neuroscience and was previously a Research Fellow at the renowned Future of Humanity Institute (FHI) at the University of Oxford, alongside other prominent futurists, such as Nick Bostrom and Toby Ord.
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Hosts: Casper Skovgaard Petersen & August Leo Liljenberg
Guest: Anders Sandberg
Published by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies
Narrated articles and conversations with the world's foremost futures thinkers, delivered to you by FARSIGHT, a quarterly publication by the Copenhagen Institute for Futures Studies.