The bots are coming - yet the biggest danger is not (yet) that they will take over but that we become too much like them!

In a digital and fully interconnected world (ETA 2030) it will not be our technology that differentiates us - it will be our HUMANITY. It will not be our efficiency, our productivity, our optimization or our smartness (brains?...logic?) and powerful intellects that will beat the machines - it will be our human-only skills. It will be everything that machines have a hard time with. Remember the Moravec Paradox: whatever is simply for a human, is hard for a machine (and vice versa).

So what is human-only? Imagination, intuition, emotions, ethics, values, compassion, empathy and consciousness. Machines are binary but humans are multinary. Organisms are NOT algorithms, and while we should try hard to build machines that have competence we should not strive for them to develop consciousness (see Stuart Russell).

If your job is 100% routine i.e. commodity work (and very very few jobs really are) the machines - software and hardware - will take your job. If your job is something like 50% routine you need to start adding values that are not routines or can be commoditised. Values that machines won't match anytime soon - what I call the Androrithms.

This future also entails a reboot of education and training - STEM education must be matched with what I call HECI - humanities, ethics, creativity and imagination. Watch my 2020 film 'How the future works'. Our ultimate job is... to be human!

I will first offer a 15 minute presentation on the future of work, showing some brand-new memes, and then I will take questions and comments from the audience using Youtube and LinkedIn comments.

YOUTUBE LINK. LINKEDIN LINK.

This event will live-stream on 7 platforms including Youtube and LinkedIn and Twitter @gleonhard - not on Facebook (sorry - and see why, here). URLs will be shared the day before the event if anything changes.

Go to www.gerdtalks.com for more details on the show.