November 2025 - Trend Spotting - Artificial Intelligence
Nov 24, 2025
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November 2025 FutureGood is a consultancy focused on helping visionary leaders build a better future. Through DEI consulting, strategic visioning, keynotes, retreats, and online learning, FutureGood helps thought leaders (like you!) to deploy futurism. |
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We are watching so many interesting trends each month that we've decided to share them with our community. If you want us to look out for a specific subject, reach out and let us know! |
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Artificial Intelligence |
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Artificial intelligence has officially passed the Turing test, demonstrating human-level intelligence, and in many cases, surpassing it. Google’s AI now outperforms doctors in diagnosis, which makes sense given that medical knowledge once doubled every 50 years and now doubles every 73 days. This is an impossible pace for any human to match. While machines excel at processing vast amounts of data, the human touch still matters: for instance, bedside manner remains critical for patient outcomes. |
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What this could mean for the social sector: AI *will* transform our entire reality. The future lies in partnership: AI provides scale and speed, while people bring heart and context. In our work, we need to plan for both the AI aspect as well as the human requirements. |
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Recent studies show ChatGPT scoring higher than doctors on empathy and helpfulness, revealing that AI is not just smart but also patient, nonjudgmental, and always available. While it may not replace jobs outright, it challenges how we see ourselves. If years of training and expertise can be matched or surpassed by machines, it forces us to rethink identity, purpose, and ultimately what it means to be human in this new era. |
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What this could mean for the social sector: If AI can outperform humans in empathy and helpfulness, the social sector must rethink what defines its value. Its true strength lies in human connection, trust, and meaning-making. The goal isn’t to compete with AI but to ensure dignity, equity, and belonging remain at the heart of human-led impact. |
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We face two possible futures: one where technology controls us, and another where we harness it with wisdom and skill while staying fully human. One path happens to us, the other because of us. |
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What this could mean for the social sector: The social sector faces a pivotal choice: let technology dictate the future or use it as a tool for justice and inclusion. By leading with wisdom and purpose, the sector can ensure technology serves humanity, not the other way around. |
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At a recent AI and future of humanity conference on Necker Island, leaders explored how the AI revolution could cut the full-time workweek from 40 to 20 hours, freeing more time for family, community, democracy, and creativity. This shift offers a unique role for the nonprofit sector: modeling how to center humanity in the workplace and showing the private sector what it means to value emotional intelligence, connection, and imagination. Instead of accepting burnout culture, we can fight for a 20-hour workweek and grow the parts of ourselves that machines can’t replicate. For those feeling overwhelmed, AI is already opening new possibilities to make this future real. |
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What this could mean for the social sector: AI could free time for nonprofits to focus on creativity, relationships, and complex social challenges. The sector can lead by modeling healthy, human-centered work cultures and proving that centering people makes organizations stronger. This is a chance to show how technology can create more space for justice, care, and community. |
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We have the opportunity to redefine what it means to be human. The social sector can lead by modeling equity, creativity, and care, showing the world what a truly human-first future looks like. Change is happening fast, and this is our moment to shape it into something beautiful. |
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What this could mean for the social sector: This is a call to lead by example. Nonprofits can model what it means to center people over profit, creativity over efficiency, and care over competition. By doing so, the sector can guide society toward a more humane and equitable future. |
