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The following is an edited transcript of my keynote presentation at The Futurists X Summit held in Dubai in September 2025. Humanity can flourish in the age of AI and robots: I believe that through them we will gain new degrees of freedom, and it will enable us to decide and design our future. My […]
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AI and robotics are progressing rapidly, though many expected robotics to advance more quickly beyond industrial applications into our homes and the broader world. As AI-powered robots become increasingly sophisticated and capable, we periodically ask ourselves if they are conscious. Consciousness can be interpreted in many ways. In its richest form, it encompasses the inner
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My live conversation with Tony Seba and James Arbib about their book Stellar has provoked a lot of questions from the audience on the various platforms, and since the platforms cannot be trusted, I chose to collect both the questions and my answers and reorganized them thematically in order to preserve them. I reorganized the
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The most important concept to understand AGI trends, is to realize that the doubling rate of AI compute is shortening. Moore’s law is chugging along at a sedate exponential, doubling every couple of years or so. A self fulfilling prophecy we’ve become accustomed to for over 50 years, bringing us ever more powerful PCs and
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I had a conversation with James Hughes, a sociologist and executive director of the Institute for Ethics and Emerging Technologies (IEET) about the impact of advanced technologies such as AI, robotics, and human enhancement on society, politics, and the future of work. We looked into the lessons we could learn from 20th-century worker struggles and
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At the Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC), Apple unveiled a groundbreaking new initiative: Apple Intelligence. This innovative suite of AI-driven capabilities will be seamlessly integrated across all of Apple’s platforms, including macOS, iOS, and iPadOS. This marks the dawn of a new era for Apple, positioning itself at the forefront of artificial intelligence technology. Apple Intelligence
I had the pleasure of engaging in a conversation with David Passiak, a scholar turned AI innovator who has been experimenting with and developing AI tools to help people enhance their personal and professional lives. Our discussion covered the complex relationship between technology, spirituality, and the evolution of human consciousness. David’s unique background as a
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I often see people stuck with a limited vision of the future and the possibilities technological innovation will open up. An example I like to give is an autonomous swarm of robots extracting the mineral resources of the asteroid belt for a space industry colonizing the outer solar system. These will need to cooperate and
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I’ll record an episode of The Context soon, talking about open standards, how they evolve, and why email appears to still matter so much. I moved my newsletter. The online address of the newsletter is davidorban.substack.com and the sender is davidorban@substack.com. I’m in the process of importing the subscribers as we speak, but you are
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Here is an edited version of the conference presentation I gave at HRAI Connect 2023 Thank you so much for having me here today. My name is David Orban. I am the founder and CEO of Actioneer, an AI-powered startup coaching and data-driven investor platform. As we heard from the introduction, today I want to
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