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The Future of living with Machines

Posted by Flux on 

19 June 2025

A Trend Briefing By Bronwyn Williams

This is not a talk about AI – it is about surviving in a future that includes AI.

Look around you – is anything real or normal any more? News, images and videos created by AI are everywhere. Human competitors and clients are being replaced by agentic zombies. The world we live in is changing daily, and it’s no exaggeration to say that everything you thought you knew about surviving in the economy is undergoing apocalyptic levels of change. Our new normal includes AI CEOs, AI partners, AI versions of our dead relatives to keep us company, and customers deploying their own adversarial agent ‘armies’ to hostile-negotiate on their behalf. Meanwhile, the expensive skills you have accumulated, the jobs you’ve fought for, the relationships you’ve invested in, the organisations you’ve worked for and the economies we depend on for survival are shrinking even as our choices expand.

Discernment and understanding of context are now critical to your survival. So, let’s stare the future down and, instead of fearing AI, become solutionists. To survive in this hyper-competitive, globalised and automated world, where the strongest and smartest winners are set to take all, we need to change our mindsets and our skill sets to become fit for the ‘post-AI, apocalyptic’ world that is here to stay. This means embracing progress and turning AI and technology into an asset with which we can co-exist, while continuing to create new possibilities far into the future. This talk is a call to action to live on the flipside of fear.

You’ll learn :

  • How to discern and add Real value within the artificial intelligence paradigm
  • How to beat the AI bullshit and add real value
  • How to harness Prosthetic intelligence instead of being overwhelmed by the agentic zombie apocalypse ahead
  • Why you need to “Kill” your jobs
  • How to solve real problems for real people

And much more

If you are interested in booking this trend briefing for your team or clients, please contact Bethea Clayton at info@fluxtrends.co.za  or +27764539405.

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