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Gerd Leonhard
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Futurist, Humanist and Public Thinker, Advocate for #thegoodfuture, Keynote Speaker: http://Gerdtube.com New film: http://LookupNow.tv Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3zdgkaQ My Starter Pack: https://go.bsky.app/28rXSKt
“It’s not by chance that it’s the green and digital agenda that are under threat. They are the main drivers of competitiveness,” the commission’s executive vice-president told the Financial Times”

EU will lose ‘race to the bottom’ on regulation, says competition chief
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EU will lose ‘race to the bottom’ on regulation, says competition chief
Teresa Ribera says Europe’s competitiveness depends on resisting calls to roll back rules
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December 26, 2025 at 8:30 PM
The other most dramatic change will be the shift from scientific and technological progress as the key driver of the traditional profit/growth/power-centric economic roadmap. This approach may have worked reasonably well during the industrial and early information economy...
December 26, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Dartmouth professor says he's surprised just how scared his Gen Z students are of AI | Fortune
'They'll lose their humanity': Dartmouth professor says he's surprised just how scared his Gen Z students are of AI | Fortune
A lot of Scott Anthony's students are excited to use AI, he told Fortune, but a meaningful portion are "scared full stop." They have "hesitation and fear."
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December 26, 2025 at 2:56 AM
“Chatbots flood the zone with possible worlds—“slopworlds,” we might call them, together composing a slopverse.”

Welcome to the Slopverse
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Welcome to the Slopverse
Generative AI isn’t hallucinatory. It is multiversal.
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December 25, 2025 at 8:30 PM
opps, I'm becoming codependent on AI buff.ly/TJ8rP8N good read, made me think
opps, I'm becoming codependent on AI
How to Stay Human While Using Artificial Intelligence
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December 25, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Die Gute Zukunft: Chancen und Herausforderungen im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz (VERTICAL)
Die Gute Zukunft: Chancen und Herausforderungen im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz (VERTICAL)
This is the vertical version of my talk in Zurich, see https://youtu.be/ovioPLMCQQo?si=9XyxKMRN_HDUDbY- for the regular 16:9 version Dies ist die vertikale Version meines Vortrags in Zürich. Eine…
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December 25, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Artificial Intelligence - Global Challenges Foundation
Artificial Intelligence - Global Challenges Foundation
AI in military decision-making: The global governance challenge The race to integrate AI into military command systems is accelerating —...
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December 25, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Wisdom in the age of AI buff.ly/ao7qXu2 "Norbert Wiener, the mathematician and philosopher who helped lay the foundations of modern computing, once warned that “the machine’s danger to society is not from the machine itself but from what man makes of it.”
Wisdom in the age of AI
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December 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Picture a world with AI: Excerpt from 'LookUpNow' -my 2023 Film on AI: youtube.com/shorts/6d77n... ... how things have changed ... now it's basically ALL about the 'IF' we can collaborate and channel this amazing new TOOL. More at www.lookupnow.tv
Picture a world with AI: Excerpt from Gerd Leonhard's New Film on #artificialintelligence & humanity
YouTube video by Gerd Leonhard
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December 24, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Global Catastrophic Risks 2026 - Global Challenges Foundation
Global Catastrophic Risks 2026 - Global Challenges Foundation
The Global Catastrophic Risks report 2026 looks at five of the biggest risks facing humanity today, including climate change and A.I.
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December 24, 2025 at 2:56 AM
The Good Future of AI: Human Augmentation (video) – Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker
The Good Future of AI: Human Augmentation (video) – Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker
The Good Future of AI: Human Augmentation (video)
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December 23, 2025 at 8:30 PM
To my fellow YT video producers: The view counts on Youtube Shorts are highly misleading as a 'view' is counted instantly even if less than a second or within a users feed. Hence, you may see higher numbers but even less engagement. #youtube is turning into an AI-infested BS machine?
December 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
Tecnología, poder y la búsqueda de lo humano: respuestas del presente para preguntas del futuro
Tecnología, poder y la búsqueda de lo humano: respuestas del presente para preguntas del futuro
EL PAÍS reúne en la tercera edición del Evento Tendencias a expertos como el futurista Gerd Leonhard, la física Nazareth Castellanos o el politólogo Pol Morillas, entre otras personalidades y empresas
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December 23, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Marc Andreessen’s “Why AI Will Save the World”: A Reductionist, Self-Serving Ode to Singularity – Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker
Marc Andreessen’s “Why AI Will Save the World”: A Reductionist, Self-Serving Ode to Singularity – Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker
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December 22, 2025 at 8:30 PM
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...
What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality
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December 22, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Futuro dell'umanità: perché il capitalismo non può gestire l'AI buff.ly/IB70Sc6 good review of my talk in Madrid

Taking Back Tomorrow: Power, AI, and the Future of Humanity: Powerful Keynote #futuristgerd
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Futuro dell'umanità: perché il capitalismo non può gestire l'AI
Gerd Leonhard lancia l'allarme: Silicon Valley sta trasformando il futuro dell'umanità in una corsa al profitto. Abbiamo 5 anni per fermarla.
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December 22, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Cool update from anders indset tomorrowmensch – WHERE OUR FUTURE IS WRITTEN_ tomorrowmensch.com
tomorrowmensch – WHERE OUR FUTURE IS WRITTEN_
WHERE OUR FUTURE IS WRITTEN What if philosophy could build technology? A 20-year experiment to understand life and consciusness through science, technology, and capital. ENTER THE EXPERIMENT …
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December 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
#botshit: CAVA not TRAPS : Focus on Tool AI: Cognification, Automation, Virtualisation and (some) Automation. Futurist Gerd's stories. botshit.net
December 19, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Glaze - Protecting Artists from Generative AI glaze.cs.uchicago.edu
Glaze - Protecting Artists from Generative AI
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December 19, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Navegando el futuro: IA en la profesión jurídica | Gerd Leonhard SuperKeynote 2025
Navegando el futuro: IA en la profesión jurídica | Gerd Leonhard SuperKeynote 2025
This video was dubbed in Spanish by AI - and apart from some super-fast segments it's actually pretty good! Dubbed with the amazing ‪@Rask_ai‬ Esta es mi conferencia magistral completa en Atenas,…
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December 19, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Why the most accurate AI models are still lying buff.ly/BR4be0m
Why the most accurate AI models are still lying
Five charts to start your day
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December 18, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Interesting event! Marshall Kirkpatrick's AI Toolkit for 2026
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December 18, 2025 at 3:28 PM
How Germany tore down a giant pillar of EU climate policy – POLITICO buff.ly/tRTacax if we keep valuing economics over planet emergencies we’re on the road to species expiration by 2050
How Germany tore down a giant pillar of EU climate policy
A last-minute deal in Berlin ensured the death of the combustion engine ban — a previously unthinkable outcome.
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December 18, 2025 at 8:15 AM
“Speaking to publishing insiders and readers, one word that cropped up repeatedly was escapism. The world is exhausting, so readers are seeking refuge rather than clarity.”

Prose and Cons
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Prose and Cons
Nonfiction's Nonstarter, Whack Hack
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December 18, 2025 at 2:56 AM