For Gerd Leonhard (Bonn, Germany, 64 years old) technology, and in particular artificial intelligence, is reconfiguring the world in an “unpredictable, hostile and unreliable” way. The futurist and humanist, author of the book Technology versus Humanity (2016), spoke about the lights and shadows of technological progress at the Trends 2025 event, held in Madrid.
“It’s the technology companies that will tell us what the future will look like,” he said. And that future will be brighter or darker depending on the motivations of these companies. For now, he commented, the incentives of great technology They are profits, growth and power.
“If the future they take us towards is marked by these incentives, it will not be as good as it could be with the technology we have in our hands. Will we once again ignore the exponential side effects of technological progress? We did it with climate change, we are doing it with artificial intelligence. We need a new economic logic, machines create routines and we do everything else. The tools must continue to be like this, the tools, the thought belongs to us”, defended Leonhard.
Him Trends Event 2025 This is a meeting organized by EL PAÍS with the patronage of Abertis, Enagás, EY, Novartis, OEI (Organization of Ibero-American States), Redeia and Santander.
