For the Human Future: Gerd Leonhard

For the Human Future: Gerd Leonhard

Gerd Leonhard's latest keynotes and talks converted to audio podcasts (starting July 2026) For the Human Future! Gerd Leonhard: Public Thinker, Advocate for the human future. Author of Technology vs. Humanity. Defender of Androrithms. #thegoodfuture. New: videos at http://gerd.tv

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October 2, 2026 • 59 mins

I went back to Yerevan, Armenia to talk about what the next five years could look like as AI accelerates faster than any technology we have ever seen. The #intelligencerevolution is here but so is the #aiemergency ! Thanks to @c‪@cubeInvestam‬or inviting me; more about the event here: https://conference.cubeinvest.am/en I share how I use AI for research, idea generation, and simple creative tasks. I explain why this “power to...

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We are building machines that can answer almost anything. But who decides which answers matter—and what kind of future they serve? In this new GerdTalks conversation, I join futurist William “Bill” Halal to explore his new book, One World: Digital Revolution and the Rise of Global Consciousness. We tackle the AI emergency, the crucial difference...

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AI and AGI: Heaven or Hell? The Next 5 Years Will Redefine Humanity. The rise of intelligent machines and cognitive computing is fundamentally changing our world, making the shift we are experiencing equivalent to the Industrial Revolution—but a thousand times greater.

Are we heading for "heaven or hell" aka #hellven ? In this custom-edited #superkeynote recording I dive into the massive convergence of humans and machines, w...

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A riveting conversation with #futurist and #publicthinker Gerd Leonhard and the Belgian digital innovation leader, thinker and author Jo Caudron, about The Future of Europe, covering AI, Digital Sovereignty and the concept of #takingbacktomorrow, as well as Jo's new book "F*CK the System and Other Bad Ideas for the Future" see https://www.jocaudron.com/ftsbook

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This is an excerpt from my keynote at DHL last month, watch it here:    • The Human Future in the Age of Exponential...   Europe Futures:    • Why and How Europe must Take Back Tomorrow...   I address the geoeconomic and geopolitical revolutions as the American president breaks pretty much all political...

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The next ten years will bring more change to our world than the previous one hundred years (no, that's not hyperbole). We are moving rapidly out of the era of extraction - where we mined oil & fossil fuels, land & agriculture, and then, data - and are entering a massive civilizational reset driven by AI and the intelligence revolution. This is a powerful yet challenging convergence of three major shifts: the digital transfo...

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In this talk, edited and updated from my AIVolution 2024 keynote in Lisbon, I explain how and why #artificialintelligence increasingly mimics and SIMULATES being human, and why the distinction between HI and AI matters. Simulation of existence is not the same as existence. Intelligence is not consciousness.

Trust isn't digital. I think AI is the biggest economic and societal shift in the past 100 years, and that we must urgent...

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Green is the new digital People planet purpose and prosperity Invest as much in humanity as you invest in technology!

00:00 - Intro 00:39 - I'm very optimistic about global warming and climate change 02:15 - The machines will take our jobs and then harvest our bodies for energy 04:41 - The 3 Revolutions: Digital, Sustainability and Purpose 13:35 - If you work like a robot, the robot will take your job 23:18 - Oil and gas is becom...

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From a keynote in Medellin, I argue for a human-centered AI that benefits everyone, and the Universal Basic Capital Fund. 

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