Humans

[New] The global action made during the next 10 years will impact the future of humanity for the next 10000 years.
[New] Data Scientists from Google assume that only in the next year (2020) robots will manage to imitate complicated human behaviour and emotions like flirting or making fun of somebody.
[New] Japanese respondents were more confident in AVs than the global average; 83% believe self-driving cars will be better drivers than humans by 2029, and 38% believe they already are.
[New] With tremendous growth expected in the industry - the global medical robotics market is expected to reach $20 billion by 2023 - there' s no doubt that robots used in healthcare will continue to conduct more varied tasks.
[New] By 2050, people over age 65 will number over 1.6 billion, accounting for 20 percent of the global population - more than double the number today.
[New] By 2025, 40 per cent of enterprises will shift from designing for humans to architecting humans themselves by adopting human augmentation technologies and methodologies.
The next 50 years is going to be great for a percentage of humans smaller than the percentage of humans for whom things will probably get worse.
As deep learning algorithms provide expert assistance and supports humans in extending their capacities, the deep learning market is expected to pick up pace with innovations in technology.
A 1.5 ˚ C world would have significantly lower climate-related risks for natural and human systems than a 2 ˚ C world, and that global CO 2 emissions would need to reach net zero around 2050 in order to have no or limited overshoot beyond 1.5 ˚ C of climate change.
Last year the UN rapporteur on extreme The postwar British welfare state is disappearing behind a webpage and an algorithm and that the impact on the human rights of the most vulnerable would be immense.
71 percent of global respondents believe autonomous cars are better at driving than humans or will surpass human abilities within 10 years, with 77 percent saying they'd be comfortable riding in an autonomous car at some point during their lifetime.
In the greatest transfer from labor to capital the banking industry has ever seen, U.S. banks will cut more than 200,000 jobs in the next decade as robots and other technology reduce the need for human workers.
Translating the human imagination to actuality has taken a far shorter time - today, 77% of devices utilize AI, 97% of mobile users have AI-powered voice assistants, and the global AI market will touch $60 billion by 2025, up from $1.4 billion in 2016!
The use cases that will see the fastest spending growth from 2018 to 2023 are automated human resources and pharmaceutical research and development.
Negative outcomes that could make adaptation critical in coming years include higher temperatures, more intense storms, melting glaciers, rising sea levels, shifting agricultural patterns, pressure on food and water and new threats to human health.
Of all countries surveyed, Japanese respondents showed the most trust in autonomous cars, with 20% saying autonomous cars are already better drivers than humans and an additional 45% believing autonomous cars will surpass humans within 10 years.
Research into the medicinal qualities of emu oil are ongoing, and this year will see a world-first clinical trial on humans take place in South Australia.
Rising sea levels and storm surges could force hundreds of millions from coastal cities, generating global costs of more than $1 trillion a year.
ABR already imposes substantial health and economic burdens, and the global annual cost of ABR could increase to 10 million deaths and US$100 trillion by 2050.
All researchers agreed that at some point within the next 100 years, AI will be able to do absolutely everything that a human worker can do but more efficiently.
With some 257 million people estimated to be in migration around the world, the persistent assault on the rights of migrants is a significant threat to human rights and a potential catalyst for other attacks on democratic safeguards.
2020 marks a critical opportunity to halt the deterioration of the natural world, the decline of life on Earth, and the loss of the natural capital and ecosystem services that underpin human wellbeing and the global economy.
The energy transition presents a major strategic opportunity to improve human health and strengthen health systems, given the pervasive exposure of people around the world to poor air quality and the growing health impacts of climate change.

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Last updated: 17 November 2019