Could a future AI trigger the observer effect?

Ron Immink
2 min readSep 13, 2024

When you study, talk, and write about future trends, you obviously cannot escape AI. The question is, where is this all going? I have been pondering this for a while. With no answers. Until I saw a post by Gerd Leonard about Sadhguru

The book pendulum

I have read many books on this topic. Actually writing a book about books about AI. 24 books and counting. A lot of those books swing on the pendulum of artificial versus natural. The question I am getting back to is whether a future AI could trigger the observer effect. Now there is a can of worms.

Inspiration and optimism

I am inspired by Neal Ashers´ science fiction, heartened by the end of Mo Gawdat´s book “Scary Smart”, and optimistic when you start combining this with other technologies such as quantum computing and synthetic biology (to name just a few) and the developments in technology abstraction (making complex technology as simple and intuitive as LEGO), allowing for a future Cambrian explosion of innovation. Solving all the problems we are currently facing and more.

Transhumanism and technosocialism

This brings you into the realm of transhumanism and technosocialism, potentially…

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Ron Immink

Father of two, strategy and innovation specialist, entreprenerd, author, speaker, business book geek, perception pionieer. See www.ronimmink.com