You Don’t Want What You Think You Want – AI and Procedurally Generated Worlds

Norbert Biedrzycki

In this essay, I’ll walk through some of the ways that AI and emerging technologies are already opening up new means to the fulfillment of human needs – from our sex lives to our work productivity to our friendships and beyond.

I’ll then explore how new need-fulfilling channels will alter the human condition radically by pulling us into individualized AI-generated experiences – and I’ll end with exploring the potential implications of these technologies for business leaders and policymakers.

Throughout, I’ll draw upon current developments in artificial intelligence (with plenty of visual examples), as well as quotes and ideas from AI researchers, philosophers, and policy thinkers to help to open up readers to possible considerations of the transformation ahead.