By Futurist Thomas Frey
When Technology Doesn’t Unite—It Divides
We assumed artificial intelligence would affect everyone similarly, creating shared challenges and opportunities we’d navigate together. We were catastrophically wrong. AI isn’t creating a unified future—it’s systematically fragmenting society into distinct layers that increasingly can’t understand each other, don’t share the same reality, and may not be able to coexist peacefully.
The fracture lines are appearing faster than anyone anticipated. Some groups embrace AI with religious fervor. Others resist with existential dread. Most people occupy the vast confused middle, neither fully committed nor entirely opposed, just trying to navigate a world that’s splitting beneath their feet into incompatible versions of what it means to be human.
By 2030, these divisions won’t just be philosophical disagreements—they’ll be fundamental incompatibilities in how people live, work, think, and relate to each other. We’re not prepared for a world where AI doesn’t just change society but shatters it into fragments that may never reassemble.
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