AI’s abilities continue to grow exponentially. We are entering a new era of work, the augmented era, where machines support, extend, and elevate human capabilities to boost workplace productivity, creativity, and intuition and offload dull, dirty, and dangerous work. Over time, intelligent AI agents will take on more and more ‘human’ work. Eventually, AI could power over 90% of all economic activity. Perhaps a generation from now—maybe sooner, maybe later, maybe never—we will enter the automated work era and live in a post-labor world. Such a world raises profound questions about human purpose, identity, and focus while promising a utopian world of abundance.

This talk explores the critical implications for our future, significant risks and upsides, and how we should prepare for a world without work.

By attending this talk, you will:

• Learn the essentials of agentic AI, artificial general intelligence, and the likely timeline for their development and deployment.
• Understand augmentation vs automation and the role AI will play in the transition of work.
• Review the job roles least likely to fall to automation.
• Consider the profound implications for humanity in a world of abundance where work is no longer a primary focus of adult life.
• Understand the potential economic consequences of a post-labor world, new economic mechanisms we might consider, and how we may need to rewire society.
• Review the risks of an economy and society powered by superintelligent AI.
• Get advice on how to prepare for a world beyond work.

Frontier AI research labs are racing to build human-level intelligence known as Artificial General Intelligence (AGI). But what is AGI, how might we create it, when will it happen, and how will it change our lives?

Steve Brown, a former executive and in-house futurist at DeepMind, Google’s AI research lab, answers these questions and explains critical concepts in accessible terms. With AGI perhaps only a few years away, this is a vital peek into the future you won’t want to miss.

By attending this talk, you will:

• Understand narrow vs. general vs. superintelligence and AI research labs’ future visions to progress toward AGI.
• Identify AI’s current limitations and the research breakthroughs needed to reach AGI.
• Investigate potential pathways to AGI.
• Understand how superintelligence will redefine business.
• Comprehend AGI’s transformative impact on industry, health, science, and society.

Change in highly regulated sectors like healthcare can be challenging. But in the coming years, artificial intelligence will be a vital tool to battle clinician fatigue, spiraling costs, growing waitlists, and killer diseases.

Diagnostic AI will improve diagnostic accuracy, boost efficiency, and improve outcomes. AI assistants will cut costs and free clinicians to be more present with patients by offloading administrative tasks. AI-enhanced sensors and clinical devices will detect disease in new ways and help manage chronic conditions in the home. AI-powered medical research will speed the path to new therapeutics and cures and deliver on the promise of personalized medicine. Powerful AI will deeply understand human health and unlock ways to extend quality of life and longevity. And in markets where access to healthcare is limited, the promise of a “doctor in your pocket” will soon become a reality.

Attend this fascinating session to explore a realistic vision for the future of healthcare and understand how rapid advances in artificial intelligence could improve wellness, benefit practitioners, and advance medical knowledge.

The media industry will change more in the next ten years than in the last 100, a century that brought us talkies, color, widescreen, IMAX, digital, and CG. By the end of this decade, Gartner Group predicts AI will be used to produce over 80% of a major Hollywood blockbuster. Video generation platforms like Sora, Luma Labs, Runway, Kling, and Google Veo make that prediction seem reasonable.

Responding to rising costs, globalization, and shifting consumer demand, content creators will embrace powerful new AI technology. Powerful AI tools will streamline production, present exciting new creative possibilities, and provide entirely new storytelling canvases, including immersive simulations, personalized movies, digital characters, and fully interactive media you can talk to. The lines between media types will blur, and money will be made in entirely new ways.

In this exciting keynote, AI futurist Steve Brown explores how AI will reshape the media landscape, shift business models, reinvent production, and create new media categories.

ChatGPT left teachers scrambling to understand what role, if any, AI should play in their classrooms. Now, powerful AI tools are transforming education and improving the experience for tutors, administrators, and students alike. AI offers new tools to enhance student-teacher connections, personalize tuition to match student learning styles and streamline administrative tasks. Traditional higher education faces a stark challenge: Embrace AI to improve outcomes and reduce the cost of high-quality further education, or face disruption from well-funded technology companies.

In this fascinating session, AI futurist Steve Brown takes you on a journey through the fast-moving world of AI, reviews how AI might transform education, and explores the skills people will need to thrive in the workplace of tomorrow, where powerful AI is abundant, and people work alongside intelligent machines. This is a must-see session for any thoughtful academic institution considering its future and how to serve its students in the 21^st century.