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Lee Rainie

Lee Rainie

@lrainie.bsky.social

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Director, Imagining the Digital Future Center, Elon University. Former Director of internet/tech research at Pew Research Center.

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David Vivancos www.vivancos.com @vivancos.bsky.social · Apr 8

Thanks🙏 @lrainie.bsky.social & J. Quitney @elonuniversity.bsky.social Imagining the Digital Future Center for the report “The Future of Being Human in 2035”

🌏 Download it here: www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/...

Thrilled to add my thoughts on the subject with world leaders friends and colleagues

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

12/12 NEW report from @elonuniversity.bsky.social Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have positive views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ …
creativity and innovation
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

11/12 NEW report from @elonuniversity.bsky.social Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have positive views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ …
decision making
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

10/12 NEW report from @elonuniversity.bsky.social Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have positive views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ …
curiosity and capacity to learn
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

9/12 NEW report from @elonuniversity.bsky.social Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have negative views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ metacognition
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

8/12 NEW report from @elonuniversity.bsky.social Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have negative views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ …
self identity, meaning and purpose
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

7/12 NEW report from @elonuniversity.bsky.social Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have negative views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ …
human agency
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

6/12 NEW report from @ElonUniversity’s Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have negative views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ …
empathy
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

5/12 NEW report from from @elonuniversity.bsky.social Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have negative views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ …
mental well being
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

4/12 NEW report from @elonuniversity.bsky.social Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have negative views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ …
shared values and cultural norms
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

3/12 NEW report from @ElonUniversity’s Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have negative views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ …
confidence in their native abilities
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

2/12 NEW report from @ElonUniversity’s Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have negative views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ …
social and emotional intelligence
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

1/12 NEW report from @ElonUniversity’s Imagining the Digital Future Center finds experts have negative views about how the co-evolution of humans and AI will affect humans’ …
capacity to think deeply
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

NEW report from Imagining the Digital Future Center at @elonuniversity.bsky.social covers experts’ answers about the impact of the co-evolution of humans and AI in 12 key aspects of human capacities. In most areas, they trend negative.
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

Experts have mixed views about the overall impact of AI on the essence of being human in next 10 years
NEW report from @elonuniversity.bsky.social's Imagining the Digital Future Center
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

Majority of tech experts say the magnitude of change in humans’ native capacities/behaviors as they adapt to AI will be “deep and meaningful,” or even “dramatic” over next decade
NEW report from @ITDF at @ElonUniversity
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Apr 2

“The Future of Being Human”-NEW report from @elonuniversity.bsky.social Center explores how experts worry that humans’ native capacities/behaviors will be significantly changed in the coming decade as AI systems become more prevalent.
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#AI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Mar 24

I loved working with @bethnoveck.bsky.social and her team on this post. It’s full of data from imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-... … and … imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...

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Beth Simone Noveck @bethnoveck.bsky.social · Mar 24

➡️ New on Reboot Democracy, @lrainie.bsky.social writes about new research that shows that while many Americans are fearful in important ways about AI – particularly generative AI and LLMs – the user base is exploding. rebootdemocracy.ai/blog/love-ha...

@thegovlab.org @burnescenter.bsky.social

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Mar 14

This is such important work. Worth a full read

Juliana Horowitz @jmhorowitz.bsky.social · Mar 14

We released a new report yesterday looking at the pressures teens face, their future aspirations, and how they see the experiences of boys and girls at their school. Among many important findings: 60% of teen girls - vs. 46% of boys - say they plan to attend a 4-year college. pewrsr.ch/4kKMHRC

The Gender Gap in Teen Experiences

Teen girls and boys in the U.S. face different pressures and report different experiences at school, though they have many of the same goals in life.

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Mar 12

LLMs will have a range of positive & negative impacts in the next decade, say today's LLM users. They are upbeat about health breakthroughs, but worried about social fallout.
Survey data: @ITDFuture at Elon University
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#LLM #AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Mar 12

Today's LLM users have mixed views about how the models will affect people's daily lives overall in the next 10 years.
Survey findings from @ITDFuture at Elon University
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#LLM #AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Mar 12

LLM users often think the tech companies that build the models should be responsible for managing policy-related problems and issues.
New survey and report from @ITDFuture at Elon University
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#LLM #AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Mar 12

NEW survey of LLM users shows there are times when they turn to the models to help them face major life moments, such as upgrading their work skills or addressing a medical issue.
Per @ITDFuture at Elon University
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#LLM #AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch

Lee Rainie @lrainie.bsky.social · Mar 12

Here are some of the darker impacts users say LLMs are having on them/making them feel. The list starts with making them feel lazy or like they were cheating.
New survey by @ITDFuture at Elon University
imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/reports-and-...
#LLM #AI #GenerativeAI #AIresearch