A new survey by the Imagining the Digital Future Center concludes that humans need to build a highly coordinated resilience infrastructure for the AI Age to counterbalance the human and systemic challenges posed by widespread AI adoption1.
The Imagining the Digital Future Center invited more than 4,000 experts to respond a non-scientific canvassing conducted between Dec. 26, 2025 and Feb. 12, 2026.
386 experts responded to at least one aspect of the canvassing:
- AI’s larger role: 82% said AI will have a significantly larger role in shaping our daily lives and key societal systems in the next 10 years or less; 13% said that level of change is 20-30 years away.
- AI guiding decisions: 56% said that at the time they expect AI will be significantly more advanced it will influence, guide or control “nearly all” or “most” human activities and decisions (another 24% said AI will influence, guide or control nearly half of activities and decisions).
- Resilience worries: 45% said humans will be only “a little” or “not at all” resilient in the face of that level of change. About half said people will be somewhat to very resilient. Of note: Many experts wrote in their essay responses that many to most humans will passively accept the influence of AI systems. Thus, these people will not feel any need to be resilient.
- Satisfaction concerns: only 33% said people will be more satisfied than dissatisfied with AI systems at that time; 31% said people will be more dissatisfied than satisfied; 33% said people will have an equal amount of satisfaction and dissatisfaction with AI systems.
251 of them provided written answers to an open-ended question about the future of AI.
Respondents were asked about their use of LLMs in writing their essays for this canvassing. Of the 197 essay writers who responded to that question,
- 74% replied, “My response was fully generated out of my own mind, with no LLM assistance”;
- 19% replied, “I used one or more LLMs somewhat in crafting my response, but most of it was written with no LLM assist”;
- 7% replied, “I used one or more LLMs to make a significant difference in enhancing my honest, personal response.”
In chapter one, Cultivating Human Agency | Prioritizing Autonomy, you can read the contribution by the author of this blog MindThePost:
My own highlight:
AI development and its applications together with developments in areas like neuroscience will eventually drive us to better understand and, perhaps, even solve, some historical ‘philosophical’ challenges, for example, the meaning of intelligence and consciousness. If and when that happens, we will likely be facing a ‘transformational’ moment comparable to those found in the largest breakthroughs in science, such as relativity, quantum mechanics or the discovery and development of antibiotics.
Meanwhile, there are plenty of challenges and opportunities deeply interlinked at the individual and societal levels.
The future will always be weird for inhabitants of the present. It is just the opposite for inhabitants of the future (whatever that future will be), because one of the fundamental advantages of the human species is adaptation.
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(1) Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, eds. Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the Age of AI: Experts Call for Radical Change Across Institutions, Social Structures. ELON University: Imagining the Digital Future, 2026. https://imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-publications/human-resilience-in-the-age-of-ai/
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