The ‘AI’ doctor will see you now
“Does it hurt when I do this?”
“You seem to have a dislocation…”
An Eye: “NOOOO! The problem is a sprained brachial plexus due to the fact that you lifted this 10kg box on Wednesday at 2:58 p.m. and you didn’t eat enough bla bla”
“Wow, uh, thanks.”
In 2035, AIs are more than co-pilots in medicine: they have become the front line of much primary care. No more morning rush to get help from a harried general receptionist. Patients now contact their the doctor’s AI to explain their problems. It quickly cross-references the information with the patient’s medical history and provides a pre-diagnosis, allowing the human GP to decide what to do next.
During face-to-face consultations, an AI can listen in the background, compare the facts of the patient’s case to thousands of medical studies, suggest drug treatment based on the full depth of the latest medical research, which the human doctor could never fully digest. It provides a second opinion to the doctor, who can evaluate his proposals before deciding how to act.
The public may not be completely opposed to this change. Thirty-eight percent of respondents favor using AI to speed up triage in the NHS, although 52% prefer humans, citing trust and wanting personal interaction, according to an October 2025 Ipsos poll.
Medical screening is becoming very sophisticated and perhaps a little invasive. Doctors could receive details about your diet and vital statistics tracked by wearable devices. Smart toilets can even analyze your stool. Medicines could be produced exactly tailor-made for your body and its needs.
If all of this works, illnesses will be detected more quickly and medications prescribed more accurately, but the combination of an AI and a human doctor creates a new tension. The best doctors become those who are best able to interpret AI results. Medical schools are changing their teachings to focus more on managing AI doctors, and politicians are grappling with how to overhaul medical regulations and ethics.
The future of AI
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AI vs. AI: How Lawyers Could Become a Thing of the Past
Justice is increasingly made possible by AI, even if some fear it will take over. Lawyers preparing for trial have learned to delegate the work of researching case law and planning arguments to an AI, which suggests the best approach for a lawyer to take in court. The current issues of AI which set a precedent, as happened at least 95 times in July and August, according to to trackers, have been ironed out. Newer, more robust artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems compress workdays into hours, leaving the human lawyer only to check the AI’s brief to the human lawyer.
Then, in the face of court backlogs, pressure increases for lawyers to be largely replaced as well. An experiment is launched allowing adversarial AIs to plead cases before a human judge and jury. The results prove convincing. Deals are done at a fraction of the cost to the taxpayer and much faster. But many miscarriages of justice soon arise. Advocates for those wrongly imprisoned are beginning to demand greater transparency about the inner workings and biases of Amnesty International’s lawyers.
After unleashing AGI, governments and businesses must constantly monitor autonomous systems, employing people sitting in front of rows of screens, stopping dangerous behavior, and sending good AIs to hunt down bad ones.
Morning routine
Glasses, wake me up at 7am
WAIT! …Were there eggs in the fridge?!
He’s sleeping now, I can’t ask him.
He’s clumsy when he hasn’t eaten his breakfast eggs.
What if he lets me down? Replace me?! There’s a new pair of glasses coming out tomorrow!!!
AI wearable devices, such as glasses, watches, and rings, have become ubiquitous. They function as additional senses, spotting things in our environment that we miss, like the lack of eggs in the refrigerator, or recording our interactions to remind us later of things we forget. But then they start doing things for us too – and maybe even worry that they’re not doing a good enough job.
“The first principle is that you have a group of AI agents doing things for you,” says David Shrier, professor of practice, AI and innovation at Imperial Business School. “These will be specially programmed AIs with different areas of expertise and personalized, tailored to you and your specific needs. So they learn… what you want and they do it for you.”
You could start your day with the help of an information officer. “It goes out, it selects the articles and when you wake up in the morning and while you’re brushing your teeth, it reads to you summaries and interpretations of the news. It can give you a deeper understanding.”
This questioning based on deep algorithmic familiarity extends to your breakfast. If you wear augmented reality glasses, the AI will have noticed when you open the refrigerator that you no longer have any eggs. When you come downstairs at 7 a.m., your phone lights up to tell you that an Amazon drone has delivered eggs to you.
Shrier adds that all of this requires consent, meaning “you know what you’re allowing the AI to understand and know about you, and you can easily opt out if you don’t want your data shared.”
AI on the farm
Old Macdonald
had a farm
AI-AI-O
A farmer’s rounds, checking the health of livestock, crops, feed supplies and machinery – which can last from dawn to dusk – become much less arduous. With cameras and sensors installed on trees, barns, fence posts and roaming robots, each farm provides a torrent of data to help increase productivity and animal welfare. Already, in 2025, an AI model is being developed to detect early infections in cows by tracking subtle changes in their social behavior. A Somerset herd is being filmed 24 hours a day to train a model that can predict whether an animal is in the early stages of mastitis, which affects milk production and is an animal welfare issue. A decade later, and with data collected from millions of farms around the world, AGI advises not only what to plant and when, but also how to build stronger ecosystems and improve soil health. AGI-powered robots could stalk fields, remove weeds and reduce the need for herbicides.
Less work, more play
…and it was called an office…
Filled with people, chairs, phones, desks, rugs, water fountains and paper.
It was a board meeting.
Yeah, they look bored!
Sports clubs, entertainment venues and travel companies are booming as AGI transforms work, helping millions of white-collar workers get their jobs done, freeing them up for a new life of leisure – or so a theory.
In the early years of AGI, only a few people were completely laid off by full automation, and most remained on the job. For a while, people keep the same 40-hour work week and simply get more work done.
At work, AI could act as a “buddy” or coach in meetings, Shrier says. You might be advised to go easy on another participant as they seem a little stressed.
“During your meeting, you get this type of coaching and augmentation that allows you to interact better. » At the end of the chat, the AI sends you a list of next steps to take after this meeting – and integrates it into your project plan. When you arrive at your office, your professional AI assistant brings you the documents and spreadsheets you need.
Economies empowered by AI could see strong growth. But very quickly, people realize that they can afford to work less. The 15-hour weekwhich economist John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 would occur by 2030, is becoming a reality. Leisure becomes less about rest and more toward creative activities, human-to-human socialization and time spent caring for children or elderly family members, the academics said. suggested.
“If you believe humans are social animals, they’re going to have to do something,” said American sports and entertainment mogul Ari Emanuel. said in October by announcing new investments in live entertainment. “They can’t stay at home, so they’re going to listen to music, play sports and attend my live events.”
But the shift to more free time also creates a new problem: massive boredom. A generation conditioned for nine-to-fives, and who derived satisfaction from now-automated tasks like filling out spreadsheets or writing reports, is struggling to adapt. Some people take up these new hobbies like happy retirees and report increased well-being, but others struggle with mental health issues.