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“We need the humility to acknowledge that we may not fully understand the net impacts or timing [of AI].”

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Book:Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“For businesses to survive, they will need to build organizational resilience for climate change, cyber, technology, and space as part of a broader existential risk management strategy.”

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Book:The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume I - Reframing and Navigating Disruption

“AI won’t replace humans, but people who can use it will.” This sounds reassuring, but it oversimplifies the complex future of work and AI integration. Experts predict a surge in opportunities, but the intricate interplay between cognification, mass automation, and how we work remains uncharted. The net effect of AI on employment is unknown - we have no data on the future.”

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Book:Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

Source: Disrupt With Impact: Achieve Business Success in an Unpredictable World

“Maintaining sustainability (in its broadest sense) may be contingent on humanity’s ability to manage and problem-solve ourselves out of the most complex, systemic, and existential risks.”

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Book:The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

Source: The Definitive Guide to Thriving on Disruption: Volume IV - Disruption as a Springboard to Value Creation

“We cannot rely on trial-and-error approaches to deal with existential risks… We need to vastly increase our investment in developing specific defensive technologies… We are at the critical stage today for biotechnology, and we will reach the stage where we need to directly implement defensive technologies for nanotechnology during the late teen years of this century… A self-replicating pathogen, whether biological or nanotechnology based, could destroy our civilization in a matter of days or weeks.”

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Book:The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology

Source: The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology