Patrick Dixon is a global AI keynote speaker, author of 18 books

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ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE will impact your life, family, friends, workplace and wider world, in ways that most people can hardly begin to imagine. AI has potential for enormous good, to transform our world for the better, but it also has the potential to cause great harm.

I have written many other books about trends, but writing this one has been a shocking and disturbing process, one which has raised many questions in my own mind about the future of humanity, in the context of other challenges such as war and our changing climate.

Plugging human brains into the digital universe

Here is just one example of a new development in AI with huge implications for society. A rapidly growing number of people say that they would like to plug their own brains directly into the digital universe sometime soon, which of course also means AI. And the technology is now available to begin to do just that. In the US, 5% of eighteen- to twenty-nine-year-olds ‘definitely would consider’ a wireless chip inserted into their own brains over the next twelve months, while 8% ‘probably would’. This means one in eight young adults in the US are seriously thinking about becoming digitally enhanced in some way...

As a Futurist advisor to over 400 of the world's largest companies including many health care / pharma giants, as well as leading AI companies such as Google and Microsoft, Patrick Dixon is one of the world's leading authorities on the impact of AI on future health care.  Dr Dixon is also a physician, who originally specialised in oncology / care of the dying.

AI (Artificial Intelligence) will drive astonishing improvements in health care, saving tens of millions of lives over the next few decades alone.

Over EU30bn is already being spent globally on AI innovations in health care each year, growing 30% pa.

95% of health care companies are now using AI, spending 10% of their collective turnover on AI.

AI has the potential to reduce health costs by up to 10% per episode of care over the next two decades, saving $300bn in the US alone.

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Patrick Dixon's 18th book is on Artificial Intelligence. Impact of AI on every industry, government, company and individual. Published by Profile Books in September 2024.

AI will create gigantic benefits for humankind in every industry, saving time and reducing costs. AI will also save hundreds of millions of lives in better health care. At the same time AI will disrupt a billion jobs, kill many in wars, is already out of control, and one day could gain the power to wipe us all out. So what will all this mean for your own career, family, community and wider world? What steps can we take now to survive and succeed in a super-smart world? 

* Patrick Dixon is often described as Europe’s leading Futurist. Author of 18 books, he has advised over 400 of the world’s largest corporations on a wide range of global trends. His clients include Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel, LinkedIn and many of the world’s largest manufacturers as well as governments. Patrick is a cancer physician by first training and his first start-up company some decades years ago was an AI-simulator, using computers to talk to and diagnose patients. His website globalchange.com has had 15 million unique visitors with 9 million video views.

In December 2018, I gave a keynote via Webinar for Enel Power. They say it was watched live by over 800,000 on several platforms, and by June 2019, it had over 1.4m views on just one platform alone, by March 2024, that had risen to 1.8m. The core messages are even more urgent and relevant today. My physical audience in the room was 25 global influencers from every part of the world, all with popular blogs / followings on green tech and alternative energy. A massive global social media campaign took place in the run up to the Webinar.  Here are the key messages....

* "How AI Will Change your life - A Futurist's Guide to a Super-Smart World" - Patrick Dixon's latest book on AI is published in September 2024 by Profile Books.  It contains 38 chapters on the impact of AI across different industries, government and our wider world, including impact of AI on the energy industry, sustainability, green tech innovation and reducing global CO2 emissions.