“To me, envisioning a future should involve elements anchored in nature, modern materials, and sustainable practices, challenging Western-centric constructs of ‘futuristic.’ Artisanal intelligence is about understanding material culture, combining traditional craft with modern techniques, and redefining what feels ‘modern.’” – Samar Younes About Sa…

“When you get a response from a language model, it’s a bit like a response from a crowd of people, shaped by the preferences of countless individuals.” – Jason Burton About Jason Burton Jason Burton is an assistant professor at Copenhagen Business School and an Alexander von Humboldt Research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development…

“AI is more of an occasion for organizational redesign than it is a solution to that redesign. However, it’s a great amplifier—it will amplify your problems, and it will amplify good organizational design.” – Kai Riemer About Kai Riemer Kai Riemer is Professor of Information Technology and Organisation, and Director of Sydney Executive Plus, at the…

“The craft of corporate development and training has always been very specialized in providing the right skills for workers, but that provision of support is being totally transformed by AI. It’s both an incredible opportunity and a challenge because AI is exposing whether we’ve been doing things right all along.” – Marc Steven Ramos About Marc Ste…

“Trust is a key ingredient when you look into Explainable AI; it’s about how can we build trust towards these systems.” – Alex Richter About Alex Richter Alexander Richter is Professor of Information Systems at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand. where he has also been Inaugural Director of the Executive MBA and Associate Dean, where …

“Each of us is creative in our own way. We have the ability to create our own future, but we must first understand that we are creative.” – Jack Uldrich About Jack Uldrich Jack Uldrich is a leading futurist, author, and speaker who helps organizations gain the critical foresight they need to create a successful future. His work is based on the prin…

“The beauty of generative AI is that it’s incredibly elastic. With a strong NLU, you can orchestrate different services to do various tasks. Whether it’s something simple like booking a vacation or scheduling a meeting, or something more complex like running a state-of-the-art deep learning model with an AI-powered agent, it becomes really interest…

“We have unique capabilities, but it’s crucial to understand that today’s AI technologies, powered by deep learning, are fundamentally different. We need a new paradigm to figure out how we can work together.” – Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi About Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi is Associate Professor at the School of Information and L…

“Machines are amazing, but they can’t do certain things that only human beings can, like exhibit consciousness, ethics, or the ability to develop social bonds involving emotions, trust, loyalty, and empathy.” – Andrew Likierman About Sir Andrew Likierman Sir Andrew Likierman is Professor and former Dean of the London Business School. Previous roles…

“It’s not just about foreseeing; it’s also about feeling and sensing. It’s about imagining the smells and sounds of the future. It’s really about being an active player in your future, an active builder of the future.” – Sylvia Gallusser About Sylvia Gallusser Sylvia Gallusser is Founder and CEO of Silicon Humanism, a futures thinking and strategic…

“We all have to acquire new information to stay relevant. But if we’re piling new information onto outdated thinking, we need to become more comfortable with lifelong forgetting.” – Erica Orange About Erica Orange Erica Orange is a futurist, speaker, and author, and Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of leading futurist consulting…

“It’s not about the amount we say; it’s about making what we say really count. We can use some of these tools to write the long version, so that we can then quickly create the short version and really dial in.” – Natalia Bielczyk About Natalia Bielczyk Natalia Bielczyk is Founder & CEO of Ontology of Value, an R&D, EdTech, and consulting agency. Sh…

“It’s not about the amount that we say. It’s about making what we say really count. We can use some of these tools to write the long one, so that we can then go ahead and very quickly write the short version and really dial in.” – Nikolas Badminton About Nikolas Badminton Nikolas Badminton is the Chief Futurist of the Futurist Think Tank. He is a w…

“AI is not a collaborator. It’s an Oracle, it’s a tool, it’s a thing. I have a query, give me the answer. It’s not a thing where you sit down with the computer like, okay, let’s think about this problem together.” – Brian Magerko About Brian Magerko Dr. Magerko is a Professor of Digital Media, Director of Graduate Studies in Digital Media, and head…

“It’s really important that we’re not ceding everything to AI and that we continue to add value ourselves in that collaboration.” – Claire Mason About Claire Mason Claire Mason is Principal Research Scientist at Australia’s government research agency CSIRO, where she leads the Technology and Work team and the Skills project within the organization’…

“If you read 1,000 papers and build a powerful representation, humans can interrogate, mine, ask questions, and even get the system to generate new hypotheses.” – Markus Buehler About Markus Buehler Markus Buehler is Jerry McAfee (1940) Professor in Engineering at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Principal Investigator of MIT’s Labor…

“So my overall interest in technology in general, not just AI, is how it supports human potential. And so for me, that’s defined as people being healthy, happy, and really able to fulfill their purpose and potential.” – Nichol Bradford About Nichol Bradford Nichol Bradford is Executive-in-Residence for AI + Human Enablement at The Society for Human…

“To use AI for omni-beneficial output, we need to bring to it our best qualities, which are beyond intelligence; it is wisdom.” – George Pór About George Pór George Pór has been researching, teaching, and consulting in the arts and sciences of emergent collective intelligence since 1987, when he was introduced to the ideas by his mentor Doug Engelb…

“The promises are tremendous and the peril is climate, not AI. “ – Daniel Erasmus About Daniel Erasmus Daniel is the Founder and Managing Director of futures consulting firm Digital Thinking Network (DTN), CEO of AI sense-making platform Erasmus.AI, and creator of ClimateGPT. He has been applying innovative approaches to scenario planning since 199…

“AI is going to change humanity into possibly a new species; we could call it a new form of humanity, which is different from what we have today. “ – Pedro Uria Recio About Pedro Uria Recio Pedro Uria-Recio is a highly experienced analytics and AI executive. He was until recently the Chief Analytics and AI Officer at True Corporation, Thailand’s le…

“In collective reasoning, one of the fundamental hurdles is coming up with a shared understanding of what we’re trying to do, and where we’re trying to go. “ – Anita Williams Woolley About Anita Williams Woolley Anita Williams Woolley is the Associate Dean of Research and Professor of Organizational Behavior at Carnegie Mellon University’s Tepper S…

“True creativity comes from humans because it stems from our unique individual experiences of life. “ – Jeremy Somers About Jeremy Somers Jeremy Somers is Founder and Director of AI-assisted creative agency NotContent.ai, and of We Are Handsome. He has extensive experience as a Creative Director, working for brands such as Asos, Canon, Mercedes-Ben…

“If we start to think about humans plus AI, this mindset begins to shape what we are trying to create.” – Ross Dawson About Ross Dawson Ross Dawson is a futurist, keynote speaker, strategy advisor, author, and host of Amplifying Cognition podcast. He is Chairman of the Advanced Human Technologies group of companies and Founder of Humans + AI startu…

“We should always remember that we are still humans. We are the ones telling the stories, deciding what we want to tell. And we are doing things for other humans; it’s the other humans who want to hear from us. For me, it’s very grounding amidst all this AI craziness to remember to come back to that relationship: me as a human talking to another hu…

“The entire business model on which people have planned their futures is wobbling underneath them right now, and they’re going to have to hang on to that wobbly platform and find themselves a ladder somewhere.” – Tim Burrowes About Tim Burrowes Tim Burrowes is the Founder and Publisher of email-first media and marketing publication Unmade, and auth…