Strategic Foresight in the Age of AI: Anticipating and Shaping the Future -LinkedIn Event 1.6.23

Strategic Foresight in the Age of AI: Anticipating and Shaping the Future.

Steve Brophy is the Director of Digital Transformation at Ivanhoe Grammar School, Melbourne, Australia. Steve is an innovative thinker, a passionate advocate of Futures Thinking, and a master of the human-centred approach. Through the power of dialogue with his students, he unleashes transformative change, sparking conversations that reshape our perspectives and ignite a collective drive towards a better future.

In this discussion, we cover topics such as What is AI Intelligence, Futures Literacy and Signals, dystopian futures, polytopia, flow states, the human experience and AI, the AI Dilemma presentation as an artefact and more.

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VIDEO TIMESTAMPS
00:10 Introduction
03:00 Steve’s journey to now
04:00 Futures thinking is the science of imagination
05:50 Futures Literacy explained
07:30 Signals explained
08:15 Is there a lack of thought about the continuation of the human race?
09:00 Polytopia explained
12:00 The AI Dilemma presentation as an artefact
16:45 AI increase the need to raise digital literacy (fact-checking).
19:00 The subject Steve teaches at school
20:00 Testing AI for fallibility
24:40 Hypothetical: What if you, the student, were the data set for the AI to be trained on?
27:45 Dystopian futures and signals
34:30 The effect of AI on the perceived need for creativity; flow states; (how important is the skill of writing in this age of AI?)
40:50 Getting students to use AI to write stories as an experiment - those with the best literacy skills get AI to write the best stories.
41:45 Connecting with the artist - but what if the artist is AI?
49:30 Prog band seeking the deep flow state
52:15 Group flow story (Keith Sawyer reference)
52:40 Is AI going to make the ‘follow your passion for making an income’ mantra less of a reality
The post-event chat
55:00 A difference between humans and AI. AI runs on language but is also limited by language because it lives within language, unlike humans.
57:30 Thinking of language as a technology, and it is limited. Compared to consciousness, revelation, awareness, and wisdom.
58:40 Will the benefits of AI outweigh the negatives?
59:30 What we require moving forward
1:00:45 The capitalist trap that AI is caught within. Ref: Andy Hines - After Capitalism (book)

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