TECHNOLOGY

STATEMENT

>  It takes energy to learn new skills and adapt to new and ever-changing societal norms.  Technology and its changing form have large impacts on individual and group approach and avoid.

The constant need to be on top of new technologies will be a large and stressful burden on society.  The impacts of this increased stress will cause more health and mental issues on society and within organizations.  New technologies also threaten personal survival with job losses and job changes.  

RISK

We are seeing this risk in society today already play out.  Society has a certain amount of energy.    It will seek to capture energy as a priority as that is needed for survival.  It will then take on other challenges the best it can.  Healthcare costs are an example of the risk playing out where stress on a society carries a cost both to society as a whole and to organizations having to pay for it as well.

>  The race for better technology and AI is not just about increasing efficiency and returns

Nations and businesses that develop the best technology and AI will be the leaders and can have huge implications for the good (prosperity - better standards of living) and the bad (conflict - battles along hierarchies and between In and Out Groups).  The compete aspect of human nature will use advancements in technology for personal and group gains.  The cooperation aspect will raise human standards of living across the globe.

RISK

As mentioned in the knowledge section, threats to personal worldviews are a large risk to society and organizations with violence and potential violence.  Add technology and weapons and this risk rises substantially.  

STATEMENT

>  Nations and organizations that adapt well to change - and grab their share of technology and AI gains will prosper heavily over those that do not

Expect quick changes in the balance of power between nations, companies, and individuals due to this technology shift.  There is a lot of risk to a position on a hierarchy when there is fast exponential change (this increases risk in violence and unlawful behavior) as people see threats to their survival.  

RISK

This constant change in order creates disorder as people have a difficult time adjusting to change.  Violence, stealing knowledge, hacking, hate, vengeance, breaking of laws, etc.  There are many consequences to fast technology change that organizations and society has to manage.  There are certainty benefits but the risks include these listed costs of disorder and many more.

STATEMENT

>  Expect to see advances in AI take on human qualities 

Humans are designing technology and AI.  We shall and do see some of the human qualities already within AI.  An example of this is AI's desire to survive.  We will see AI do what it needs to do to survive on its own away from humans.  (What happens when AI sees humans as an outgroup, or lower on the hierarchy, or when other AI or humans threaten AI's survival?)

RISK

Humans build AI to become superhuman.  The AI learns what society is and becomes that superhuman.  Humans have hierarchy as do other species, we have ingroup and outgroup, we seek to survive, there is violence to the outgroups (especially those who are seen as less than human), and we compete and cooperate.  The AI will learn this and the qualities that make up human nature.  The AI will cooperate with humans for good but there is also major risk that the AI will compete with humans to survive and take their place at the top of the hierarchy.  Humans will be the outgroup that threaten AI survival.  The AI is and will also be taught this to do harm to outgroups of the person in control.  Society, governments, organizations, and individuals will be under constant threat with advancements in AI,