Thought Leadership: Earlier this week, I began reading Robert McFarland’s latest book, Is a River Alive? The book explores the transformative idea that rivers are living beings who should be recognized as such in imagination and law. I wrote about this idea in a 2021 Forbes article, and I am aware that it may [...]

  Thought Leadership: Today’s AI leaders, including Sam Altman and Dario Amodio have both issued thoughtful pieces on the future of artificial intelligence in the past week and yet they seem to be missing an obvious point: Both men assume future advances in AI will take place in a relatively stable political environment. I don’t [...]

Editor’s Note: This Sunday, I am traveling to southern Minnesota to deliver my first-ever presentation on “The Future of Faith.” Here is how the talk is being billed: Spiritually, Jack Uldrich identifies himself as a contemplative Celtic Christian. He is also the best-selling author of 13 books and a noted global futurist. In this engaging [...]

In the book “The Sun Also Rises,” Ernest Hemingway wrote the line, “Gradually and then suddenly,” to describe how a character went bankrupt. The phrase also neatly captures how our future is poised to change because of three transformational issues: the burgeoning national debt, accelerating advances in artificial intelligence, and the looming climate crisis. Let’s [...]

Thought Leadership: One hundred years ago, if you were an elevator operator, you likely feared the creation of “humanless” elevators. Seventy-five years ago, telephone operators feared for their jobs. Today, grocery clerks have the same fear. In the near future, an increasing number of jobs will be automated, including those of Uber and taxi drivers. [...]

Thought Leadership: What if most people have the political situation wrong? What if the true threat to American jobs is not human immigrants pouring across borders but rather the accelerating advances in artificial intelligence? To better understand this possibility, think of AI bots as “digital immigrants” and then think of these bots as “amassing” along [...]

Thought Leadership: “The Coming Sonic Boom:” Last week, I gave a presentation on artificial intelligence. At the time, I didn’t use this analogy, but this is how you may want to think about the technological era we are currently living: When I was in the Navy, I served aboard an aircraft carrier, The USS John [...]

Thought Leadership: A few centuries ago, producing light was a difficult, costly, and time-consuming endeavor. For instance, to produce long-lasting candles, humans had to harvest spermatici oil from whales. Today, of course, producing light is incredibly inexpensive, and it has produced a great many benefits for society. It has also created the undesirable situation where [...]

Urgent:  This is the most important TED talk you can watch. If you are concerned about AI--and you SHOULD be--Tristan Harris' brilliant and heartfelt 15-minute presentation offers the most clear and concise definition of the problem humanity faces regarding AI I have yet to hear. It also offers a detailed description of what we, as [...]