“Imagine digitally connected people’s daily lives in the social, political, and economic landscape of 2035. Will humans’ deepening partnership with and dependence upon AI and related technologies have changed being human for better or worse?

Over the next decade, what is likely to be the impact of AI advances on the experience of being human? How might the expanding interactions between humans and AI affect what many people view today as ‘core human traits and behaviors?’”

This is the second of four pages with responses to the question above. The following sets of experts’ essays are a continuation of Part I of the overall series of insightful responses focused on how “being human” is most likely to change between 2025 and 2035, as individuals who choose to adopt and then adapt to implementing AI tools and systems adjust their patterns of doing, thinking and being. This web page features many sets of essays organized in batches with teaser headlines designed to assist with reading. The content of each essay is unique;, the groupings are not relevant. Some essays are lightly edited for clarity.