"What we know today as newspapers will largely not exist in five years. Instead of editors, journalists or analysts, we will have hyper-personalized news created for us by artificial intelligence."

This is one of the predictions made by Professor Morten Goodwin in a special edition of the podcast Kunstig intelligens.

"If someone wants to have news framed politically towards the right or left, they will get it. Of course, this is not a positive development, but we will see artificial intelligence dominate the news landscape with such bubbles," says Goodwin.

In the episode, he talks with PhD student Jahn Thomas Fidje from the University of Agder's Centre for Artificial Intelligence Research. Together, they make ten predictions about how artificial intelligence will develop in the years leading up to 2030.

Here are other ways Goodwin and Fidje believe artificial intelligence will shape the world over the next five years:

1. The first AI-created blockbuster will be a success

A film where artificial intelligence creates both the script, animation and music will not only be a curiosity, but a commercial success.

2. AI-driven evolution

Artificial intelligence will be used to design creatures – from microorganisms that can capture CO2 or eat plastic waste, to allergy-friendly pets free of hereditary diseases.

3. Brain and machine become one

Direct communication between the human brain and artificial intelligence will be possible. Humans may transfer information just with their thoughts or receive help from AI chips to think.

4. The machine that interprets dreams

A new technology will measure your brain activity while you sleep and allow you to play back your dream as a film.

5. New tests to detect AI

Tests designed to distinguish artificial from human intelligence are called Turing tests. By 2030, we will need new such tests, focusing on areas that today’s artificial intelligence still finds challenging. This could include emotional intelligence or certain types of logical problem-solving.

6. AI-driven warfare takes over

War will no longer be about traditional military forces, but about cyberattacks, autonomous drones and information warfare. In a new AI arms race, China will have the lead, but the US will catch up with a project modelled after the Manhattan Project, which gave us the atomic bomb.

7. Robots clean up the oceans

Self-driving robots controlled by artificial intelligence will collect plastic in the world’s oceans.

8. Artificial intelligence edits our genes

By combining artificial intelligence and CRISPR technology to edit genes, we will have entirely new possibilities to create both designer babies and biologically enhanced humans.

9. Artificial intelligence will have a formal role in politics

Politicians and bureaucrats will rely much more on algorithms than they do today. Perhaps a future government will have artificial intelligence in an advisory role?