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A Day in the Life of a Family Office in 2035: When Wealth Management Becomes Self-Aware

December 10, 2025

By Futurist Thomas Frey

When Your Money Has Its Own AI Staff

By 2035, family offices have evolved from wealth management firms into semi-autonomous ecosystems—part investment lab, part AI command center, part legacy-preservation engine. Let me walk you through a typical Tuesday at the Arlington Family Office, a mid-sized operation overseeing $2.1 billion across real estate, biotech, private equity, digital currencies, and mission-driven philanthropy.

What happens inside would have been unimaginable just ten years earlier.

AI, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Robots

Will AI ever become conscious?

May 30, 2018

When science-fiction worlds introduce robots that look and behave like people, sooner or later those worlds’ inhabitants confront the question of robot self-awareness. If a machine is built to truly mimic a human, its “brain” must be complex enough not only to process information as ours does, but also to achieve certain types of abstract thinking that make us human. This includes recognition of our “selves” and our place in the world, a state known as consciousness.

One example of a sci-fi struggle to define AI consciousness is AMC’s “Humans” (Tues. 10/9c starting June 5). At this point in the series, human-like machines called Synths have become self-aware; as they band together in communities to live independent lives and define who they are, they must also battle for acceptance and survival against the hostile humans who created and used them.

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