{"id":243265,"date":"2026-08-27T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/why-im-not-betting-on-ray-kurzweils-predictions-but-im-sure-as-hell-listening"},"modified":"2026-08-27T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-27T14:06:00","slug":"why-im-not-betting-on-ray-kurzweils-predictions-but-im-sure-as-hell-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/why-im-not-betting-on-ray-kurzweils-predictions-but-im-sure-as-hell-listening","title":{"rendered":"Why I\u2019m not betting on Ray Kurzweil\u2019s predictions, but I\u2019m sure as hell listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/why-im-not-betting-on-ray-kurzweils-predictions-but-im-sure-as-hell-listening.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ray Kurzweil is the AI forecaster with an \u201c86% accuracy\u201d rate. The number is debatable. But here\u2019s why his thinking is well worth hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ray Kurzweil is the AI forecaster with an \u201c86% accuracy\u201d rate. The number is debatable. But here\u2019s why his thinking is well worth hearing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2018,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-243265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ray-kurzweil","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243265"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243265\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}