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Happy new year: Here is my 2026 Topic: Take Back Tomorrow: We must reclaim our future from technology and update our outmoded economic models, as we shift from the 'Information age to the INTELLIGENCE AGE" #takebacktomorrow buff.ly/8lwEhnP

Happy 2026. Here is one my key messages: AI must be a TOOL not a purpose.

Your brain thinks AI is human

“Tourism has become unlimited, mass-oriented, and largely low-cost party tourism that doesn’t come to truly discover the islands, but to consume a fake backdrop.” Fodor’s No List 2026 buff.ly/GiPm36S via Instapaper

The Dollar Is Facing an End to Its Dominance | WIRED buff.ly/4QQ5KWE

Lanzarote Conversations: Various interviews with Futurist Gerd Leonhard shot in Lanzarote, Canary Islands buff.ly/hhfUC9Z

Introducing the Future Tax: Gerd Leonhard on the Future of Lanzarote youtu.be/PwSOiFWyi3g

“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 buff.ly/UlUHacP

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...

GerdTalks by Futurist Gerd Leonhard gerdtalks.campsite.bio

Dartmouth professor says he's surprised just how scared his Gen Z students are of AI | Fortune

“Chatbots flood the zone with possible worlds—“slopworlds,” we might call them, together composing a slopverse.” Welcome to the Slopverse buff.ly/h3PDW8q via Instapaper

opps, I'm becoming codependent on AI buff.ly/TJ8rP8N good read, made me think

Die Gute Zukunft: Chancen und Herausforderungen im Zeitalter der Künstlichen Intelligenz (VERTICAL)

Artificial Intelligence - Global Challenges Foundation

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.”

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

Global Catastrophic Risks 2026 - Global Challenges Foundation

The Good Future of AI: Human Augmentation (video) – Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker

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?

Tecnología, poder y la búsqueda de lo humano: respuestas del presente para preguntas del futuro

Marc Andreessen’s “Why AI Will Save the World”: A Reductionist, Self-Serving Ode to Singularity – Gerd Leonhard Futurist Humanist Author Keynote Speaker

What OpenAI Did When ChatGPT Users Lost Touch With Reality www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

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 youtu.be/NKULqRQj1UY

Cool update from anders indset tomorrowmensch – WHERE OUR FUTURE IS WRITTEN_ tomorrowmensch.com

#botshit: CAVA not TRAPS : Focus on Tool AI: Cognification, Automation, Virtualisation and (some) Automation. Futurist Gerd's stories. botshit.net

Glaze - Protecting Artists from Generative AI glaze.cs.uchicago.edu

Navegando el futuro: IA en la profesión jurídica | Gerd Leonhard SuperKeynote 2025

Why the most accurate AI models are still lying buff.ly/BR4be0m

Interesting event! Marshall Kirkpatrick's AI Toolkit for 2026

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

“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 buff.ly/KHFLjVZ via Instapaper

I tried the new ChatGPT image engine today and it’s pretty amazing - it has figured out that the images are from me ie that I am the person in the images I uploaded - and therefore allows me to manipulate them. Not sure where this is going. #hellven

Must-vote: Worst Person in Tech 2025 - Quarter Finals | forms.app buff.ly/28y1Ppl

How AI Is Reshaping Human Psychology, Identity and Culture buff.ly/WcOnJ6Y "AI-simulated empathy can progressively substitute, distort, and displace genuine human empathy at the individual, relational, and organisational levels" #techvshuman

Will Creative Work Survive A.I.? www.nytimes.com/2025/12/16/o... The A.I. industry claims that it wants to democratize creativity, but the real goal is dominance. It can seem inevitable that A.I. will rewrite…

This is an illustration I made with Gemini and runway, a great example of what I call “the good enough dilemma of AI. I asked it to explain my 5P model of #thegoodfuture and this is what I got

This will be an important book: Bill Halal: One World? - Amplify Publishing Group buff.ly/FvKzwfm I just devoured some Manuscript details - powerful stuff.

ChatGPT - Gerd Leonhard Navigator

“What technology will do for us depends on how we design it and where economic power resides”

“It feels like we’re already over the edge of the cliff, noticing the wind rushing by around us as we descend, and maybe just mustering the courage to look down.” Why I'm Getting Weird buff.ly/byXDSLC via Instapaper

youtube.com/live/uXzXw3q... live stream in 25 minutes

Noam Chomsky: The False Promise of ChatGPT www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/o...

Anthropic’s chief scientist says AI autonomy could spark a beneficial ‘intelligence explosion’ – or be the moment humans lose control buff.ly/i822TLs MUST READ #haltagi #techvshuman

The difference between intelligence and consciousness: Excerpt from Seoul Keynote AI Content Summit by #futurist Gerd Leonhard

The difference between intelligence and consciousness: Excerpt from Seoul Keynote AI Content Summit youtu.be/qe1uKWaCFWU

Reading Trump’s National Security Strategy: Europe through a distorted lens | ECFR buff.ly/WEZzf2e

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My latest film on AI 2023- Look up now lookupnow.tv