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| Casey Newton |
If users come to believe that prediction markets are rigged with insider trading, they will be dissuaded from participating, harming the markets' viability.
“...after enough of these incidents, like, you kind of have to be a sucker to participate in these markets without insider information.”
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| Kevin Roose |
As prediction markets become more established, it's likely that they will eventually be regulated.
“I imagine that will change at some point because they don't seem like they're going away.”
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| Kevin Roose |
Prediction market companies will likely lobby to remain under the jurisdiction of the smaller, less powerful CFTC rather than the SEC to avoid stricter oversight.
“I wouldn't be surprised if the prediction markets weren't lobbying to continue to be regulated by the CFTC...”
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| Casey Newton |
If Supreme Court justices ever bet on the outcomes of their cases, the scandal will likely be exposed by reporting from ProPublica.
“You know what? I bet when they do, we're gonna hear about it in ProPublica.”
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| Kevin Roose |
The prediction market space is on a trajectory to become a massive, unregulated online casino if it continues to grow without proper oversight.
“...if it ever is, like, I imagine this is just going to become, like, a total casino.”
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| Casey Newton |
The current trend of blanketing cities with advertisements for gambling and prediction markets will ultimately lead to negative societal outcomes.
“I don't think blanketing the world in advertisements for gambling is, like, going to lead us to a good place.”
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| Casey Newton |
Without regulatory changes, the media will continue to report on scandals and manipulation within prediction markets.
“...what we should expect if nothing else changes is to just, you know, keep reading more stories like this.”
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| Kevin Roose |
The U.S. government will almost certainly pass regulations to stop flagrant abuses of prediction markets, especially by military and government officials, for national security reasons.
“I think I would put a high percentage, m- probability mass on that. ... I would expect, like, just for national security reasons, they will do something about that.”
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| Casey Newton |
While a comprehensive law might be difficult, we will probably see new rules introduced that start to rein in the prediction market industry.
“maybe we will at least see more rules and, you know, maybe those rules will, uh, begin to rein this in.”
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| Joanna Stern |
Humanoid robots will not become a common presence in people's homes in the near future.
“But gosh, like, this promise that these robots are coming to live with us, they're really not coming to live with us anytime soon.”
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robotics | high | ||
| Joanna Stern |
Over the next few years, the public will be able to watch the technological progression of humanoid robots as companies continue to develop them.
“...I think we're gonna watch this progression over the next couple years, and I would love to be the person that's sort of documenting a little bit of this.”
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robotics | medium | ||
| Joanna Stern |
AI-powered wearable devices will continue to improve and are on a path to becoming a mature and useful product category.
“I think the AI wearables are really getting there.”
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AI hardware | medium | ||
| Casey Newton |
AI will increasingly be used in medical and dental fields to justify upselling patients on expensive and potentially unnecessary procedures.
“...it's gonna have this sort of fancy high-tech sheen that is going to make you th- think... when in reality it's a service you don't need and they're gonna overcharge you for it.”
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AI in dentistry | medium | ||
| Joanna Stern |
When used for personal decision-making, AI will often act as a mirror, reflecting and reinforcing what a person already subconsciously wants.
“AI is this mirror and it's gonna tell you basically what you want, and in some ways it told me what I wanted, right?”
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AI decision-making | medium | ||
| Joanna Stern |
The most significant societal divide regarding AI sentiment and adoption will emerge along generational lines, especially with Gen Z and younger cohorts.
“I'm really interested in the age divide... I think that's where we're gonna see it...”
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AI adoption | medium | ||
| Casey Newton |
A broader social and technological movement is emerging to help people counteract digital distraction and reconnect with themselves.
“...we're starting to see the signs of a movement that wants to help people return to themselves.”
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attention/focus | medium | ||
| Kevin Roose |
Tech companies like Meta will eventually create products that commodify and monitor currently private, offline activities.
“I do worry that Meta will release a surfboard with a microphone.”
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tech industry | speculative | ||
| Kevin Roose |
In the future, many people will cope with their discomfort around technology by using simple, brute-force methods like locking their phones away.
“...and for many people, I think that's, uh, just going to be something that they deal with by, like, locking their phone in a box...”
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| Kevin Roose |
A cultural counter-movement focused on reclaiming humanity from technology will grow in response to AI, similar to historical reactions to previous technological leaps.
“...every time we sort of make a big leap forward in technology, there's a cultural counter movement... we wanna, like, reclaim ourselves from the technology.”
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| Casey Newton |
A new counterculture is developing that fundamentally rejects the dominant ethos of the modern tech industry.
“I think we're seeing the formation of this new kind of counterculture that just rejects it completely.”
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