Choose your own AI future

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AI’s future depends on who holds power, how technology fits into society, and what people can understand, decide, and do. This interactive essay makes those assumptions explicit through a series of choices about AI’s capabilities and development.

Twelve illustrated futures pair scenarios in which human capabilities stay fixed with alternatives in which people advance too. Each world includes a story, a capability chart, and risks to consider.

Two illustrated futures for a public planning meeting: residents have limited influence in one, and present an independently supported alternative in the other.