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title: "Shareable quotes from experts about artificial intelligence and the future of humans"
description: "Predictions from experts about artificial intelligence and the future of humans, from @pewresearch and @ImagineInternet.  "
date: "2018-12-10"
authors:
  - name: "Sara Atske"
url: "https://www.pewresearch.org/internet/2018/12/10/shareable-quotes-from-experts-about-artificial-intelligence-and-the-future-of-humans/"
---

# Shareable quotes from experts about artificial intelligence and the future of humans

Digital life is augmenting human capacities and disrupting eons-old human activities. Code-driven systems have spread to more than half of the world’s inhabitants in ambient information and connectivity, offering previously unimagined opportunities and unprecedented threats. **As emerging algorithm-driven artificial intelligence (AI) continues to spread, will people be better off than they are today?**

Some 979 technology pioneers, innovators, developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists answered this question in a canvassing of experts conducted by Pew Research Center and Elon University's Imagining the Internet Center in the summer of 2018. Below are some of their responses.

### Predictions from experts about artificial intelligence and the future of humans

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