Dan Mapes is the Founder and President of Verses.AI, an advanced artificial general intelligence and spatial web company, and Founder and Director of the Spatial Web Foundation enabling the 3D Internet. He also co-authored the best-selling book, The Spatial Web. Dan explains what globally networked artificial general intelligence can do now, what will become possible soon—especially with AI-run operations—and his vision of our AI-empowered planet in 2100. Dan discusses augmented working capacities, our ongoing caterpiller-like metamorphosis, and how we can all benefit by learning about and leaning into our growing capabilities. KEY TAKEAWAYS   [02:37] Working on his PhD in AI at Berkeley, Dan clearly sees the ultimate goal of creating software that rewrites itself.   [03:36] ChatGPT is a machine rather than a self-evolving system which can learn from its mistakes.   [05:02] The ultimate software interface would be a 3-dimensional environment.   [06:04] Dan creates a lab to do R&D and work across sectors to solve intractable computer problems.   [07:14] The role of game theory in our lives and when developing artificial intelligence.   [08:23] Dan’s lab develops: databases that handle game objects, early capabilities to move images over a network, digital humans.   [10:18] How biological design using an action perception modeling cycle is a game changer in a co-evolutionary process.   [14:16] There are two classes of AI now—(1) content creation (neural nets) and (2) operations.   [16:28] We are at a new inflection point—leaving the industrial age and entering an intelligent globally networked age.   [17:40] Dan shares a practical use case—his company won an EU contract to manage drones in flight.   [20:40] The new AI enabled a universal language of AI – Hyper Space Modeling Language HSML.   [22:46] Dan describes what sharing a co-evolutionary brain worldwide means with collective intelligence rising.   [27:13] How the internet developed into the World Wide Web.   [29:12] The internet was always going to evolve into the Spatial Web once bandwidth increased enough.   [30:43] What the Internet of Everything will look and feel like as the 3D Spatial Web.   [33:25] The worldwide web’s three big flaws are being fixed by identity, security, and location layers.   [37:04] How everyone having self-sovereign identity improves privacy with zero knowledge proofs.   [39:16] The data exchange built into the Spatial Web allows each person to trade their personal data, if desired.   [40:12] Shopping will be a very different experience with AI-enabled mass personalization.   [41:43] The worldwide web aas a prototype—a useful 25-year experiment preparing us for what’s next.   [43:24] Dan anticipates a shift of similar magnitude to when we transitioned to the Industrial Age.   [45:24] When the network IS the economy, workers are location independent nodes on the network.   [46:43] We are transitioning to a planetary civilization, thinking about key problems at a planet level.   [48:50] Transforming education outcomes when AI can assess capabilities and personalize learning.   [51:34] The caterpillar, the butterfly, and the metamorphosis we are currently cocooning through.   [56:20 Dan’s vision of abundance moving beyond the Industrial Age and cooperating at global scale.   [57:09] Understanding the historical and potential trajectory of planetary wealth.   [58:59] What might be possible combining AI and quantum computing?!   [1:00:44] Evolutionary force is driving new developments—such as creating a digital neocortex to augment the human neocortex.   [1:03:57] Earth is an evolutionary planet.   [1:05:40] IMMEDIATE ACTION TIP: To prepare and start adapting for an AI-powered future — learn more, educate more — read whitepapers, watch relevant videos and interviews — and come from a fundamental position of trust; trust with care. Feel positive about what we are evolving toward while paying attention to possible misuses.     RESOURCES