‘AI’ doctor will now see you
“Does it hurt when I do this?”
“Looks like you’ve got a concussion…”
One Eye: “Nope! Sprained brachial plexus from lifting a 10kg carton on Wednesday at 2:58pm and not eating enough blah blah.”
“Wow, mistake, thanks”
In 2035, AI are more than co-pilots in medicine, they have become the front line for more primary care. Gone is the early-morning rush to get to a nervous GP receptionist for help. Patients now contact their doctor’s AI to tell them about their ailments. It quickly examines information based on the patient’s medical history and provides pre-diagnosis, putting the human GP in a position to decide what to do next.
In a face-to-face consultation an AI can listen in the background, weighing the facts of a patient’s case against thousands of medical studies, proposing a course of medications based on the full depth of the latest medical research that a human doctor could never fully digest. This provides a second opinion for the doctor, who can assess his/her proposals before deciding on a course of action.
It is possible that the public may not be completely averse to this change. Thirty-eight percent of people are in favor of using AI to speed up triage in the NHS, although 52% prefer humans, citing trust and wanting personal interaction, polling conducted by Ipsos in October 2025 found.
Medical screening has become increasingly sophisticated and perhaps a little invasive. Doctors can be sent details of your diet and vital statistics tracked by the wearable devices. Smart toilets can also analyze your bowel movements. Medicines can be tailored exactly to your body and its needs.
If it all works, diseases are detected faster and medications prescribed more accurately, but combining an AI and a human medicine creates a new tension. The best doctors become those who are most adept at interpreting the outputs of AI. Medical schools change their teachings to focus more on the management of AI medics, and politicians struggle with how to improve medical regulation and ethics.
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Justice is increasingly being enabled by AI, although some fear it is being taken over. Solicitors preparing for trial have learned to delegate the task of ascertaining case law and planning arguments to AI, proposing the best way for a barrister to approach the court. AI’s current problems in creating case law, as occurred at least 95 times in July and August, According The trackers have been ironed out. Newer, more robust artificial general intelligence (AGI) systems turn working days into hours, leaving the human lawyer only to scrutinize the AI’s briefs to the human barrister.
Subsequently, amid the backlog in the courts, there is increased pressure to replace barristers on a large scale. An experiment is launched that allows adversarial AI to argue cases in front of a human judge and jury. The results prove compelling. Cases are disposed of at a fraction of the cost to the taxpayer and much faster. But soon numerous miscarriages of justice begin to surface. Campaigners for wrongfully imprisoned people begin to demand greater transparency about the inner workings and biases of AI lawyers.
After AGI is released, governments and companies will have to constantly survey autonomous systems, employ people to sit at the side of the screen, shut down dangerous behavior, send good AI to detect bad AI.
morning routine
glasses, wake me up at 7 am
wait! …were there eggs in the fridge?!
He’s sleeping right now, I can’t ask him.
When he did not eat eggs for breakfast he became clumsy.
What if he leaves me? Takes my place?! A new set of glasses will arrive tomorrow!!!
Wearable AI devices such as glasses, watches, and rings have become ubiquitous. They act as extra senses, detecting things in our environment that we forget, like the lack of eggs in the fridge, or recording our conversations to remind us later of things we forget. But then they also start working for us – and perhaps worry about not doing a good job.
“The first principle is that you have a bunch of these AI agents that do work for you,” says David Schrier, professor of practice, AI and innovation at Imperial Business School. “These will be specially programmed AI that will have different areas of expertise and will be customized to you and your specific needs. So they learn… what you want and they go and do it for you.”
You can start your day with the help of an information agent. “It goes out, it curates articles and when you wake up in the morning and while you’re brushing your teeth, it reads you a summary and interpretation of the news. It can provide some deeper understanding for you.”
This second guessing, based on deep algorithmic familiarity, extends to your breakfast. If you’re wearing augmented reality glasses, when you open the fridge the AI will know you’re out of eggs. When you go downstairs at 7 a.m. your phone lights up and tells you an Amazon drone has delivered you some eggs.
Shrier says this all 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 farm
old macdonald
there was a farm
Aye-Aye-O
For a farmer, making rounds to check the health of livestock, crops, feed supplies and machinery – which can take hours from dawn to dusk – becomes much less arduous. With cameras and sensors mounted on trees, barns, fence posts and roving robots, every 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 herd in Somerset is being filmed around the clock to train a model to predict whether an animal is in the early stages of mastitis, which affects milk production and is an animal welfare problem. A decade later and with data sourced from millions of farms around the world, AGI provides advice not only on what to plant and when, but how to build stronger ecosystems and improve soil health. AGI-powered robots can root out weeds in fields and reduce the need for herbicides.
less work, more play
…and it was called the office…
Filled with people, chairs, phones, desks, carpet, water coolers and papers
This was a board meeting.
Yes, they look bored!
As AGI is transforming work, sports clubs, live entertainment venues and travel agents are mushrooming, helping millions of white-collar workers complete their tasks, freeing up time for new lives of leisure – at least that’s a theory.
In the early years of AGI only a few people are made completely redundant by full automation, and most remain on the job. For a while, people maintain the same 40-hour work week and simply work more.
In the workplace, AI could act like a “buddy” or coach in meetings, Shrier says. It may advise you to be gentle towards other attendees as they appear a little stressed.
“During your meeting you’re getting the kind of training and encouragement that makes you better at negotiating.” As soon as the chat ends, the AI sends you a list of next steps to take after this meeting – and adds it to your project plan. As soon as you arrive at your desk, your professional AI assistant is bringing you the necessary documents and spreadsheets.
AI-enhanced economies could grow faster. But soon people realize that they can work with less. The 15-hour week, which economist John Maynard Keynes predicted in 1930 would happen by 2030, has become a reality. Academics have said that leisure becomes less about relaxation and more oriented toward creative activities, human-to-human socialization, and caring for children or elderly family members. suggested,
“If you believe in the notion that humans are social creatures, they have to do something,” American sports and entertainment mogul Ari Emanuel. Said In October he announced new investments in live entertainment. “They can’t just sit at home, so they’ll go to music, they’ll go to sports and they’ll go to my live shows.”
But the shift to more free time also creates a new problem: mass boredom. A generation that was adapted to nine to five and that derived satisfaction from now-automated tasks like filling out spreadsheets or writing reports is struggling to adjust. Some people embrace the new vacation as happy retirees and report better health, but others struggle with mental health problems.
