By Futurist Thomas Frey
For years, I’ve been known as the “unanswerable questions guy”—the person who asks questions that make people pause, scratch their heads, and admit they genuinely don’t know.
I’ve asked questions like “What comes after the Internet?” and “How many galaxies will humans eventually colonize?” Questions that neither science nor religion could definitively answer. Questions about managing systems that don’t exist yet, about unintended consequences we can’t foresee, about futures we can barely imagine.
But something fundamental has shifted. With AI, there are no questions that AI cannot answer. Some answers are speculative, some are wrong, some are poorly reasoned—but there are no “I don’t knows.” Ask an AI anything, and it will give you something.
So what’s the equivalent moving forward? What stumps the world when machines can generate plausible responses to anything we throw at them?
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