A Journey Through the Uncanny Valley of AI | IFTF Ten-Year Forecast 2025–2035
In this immersive opening session from The Ten-Year Forecast 2025–2035: Charting Your Future for Social Good, Institute for the Future speakers explore the “uncanny valley” as a way to understand how artificial intelligence is reshaping communication, creativity, trust, and everyday life.
Part presentation, part live experiment, this session invites participants to wrestle with the strange, provocative, and deeply human questions raised by emerging AI systems—from synthetic voices and digital companions to translation tools, bots, and human-machine collaboration.
Speakers and contributors:
Dylan Hendricks, Director of the Ten-Year Forecast, Institute for the Future
Toshi Hoo, Director, Emerging Media Lab, Institute for the Future
Nathalie Lopez, Community Research Manager, Institute for the Future
Daniel Berkman, Musician
Presented as part of BBB Wise Giving Alliance’s 2025 partnership event with the Institute for the Future, GoFundMe, and The Salvation Army.
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