Unlocking Us with Brené Brown Futurist Amy Webb on What's Coming (and What's Here)
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Apr 24, 2024 
Quantitative futurist Amy Webb discusses the 'super cycle' of AI, wearable devices, and biotechnology, emphasizing the need for future planning. Topics include human responses to modern challenges, data-driven models for predicting trends, potential career paths in the tech landscape, ethical concerns in AI development, and incentivizing ethical choices in technology.
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High School Amy Webb
- Amy Webb was voted "most likely to succeed" by faculty and "most likely to be assassinated as president" by students.
- She pursued music and academics, showcasing diverse interests and pattern recognition skills.
Cost of Pattern Recognition
- Connecting seemingly unrelated things has a downside: hypervigilance.
- Seeing more possibilities than others can cause anxiety, especially without coping tools.
Two Sides of AI Anxiety
- A venture capitalist told Amy Webb that AI would enslave humans.
- A bank CEO asked how AI could eliminate staff, highlighting the range of anxieties about AI.