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  • Worldbuilding Course
  • Worldbuilding Toolbox
  • World Entry Page
  • World gallery
  • Worldbuilding Course
  • Worldbuilding Toolbox
  • World Entry Page
  • World gallery
  • Worldbuilding Course
  • Worldbuilding Toolbox
  • World Entry Page
  • World gallery
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AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

What if AI could help us build a more resilient, inspiring, and flourishing world?

This course uses worldbuilding to explore hopeful futures—and the steps we can take to make them real.

Udemy course

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Submit Your 2035 World & Win Up to $1,000

Have a vision for a better future? Submit your world by June 30 for a chance to win up to $1,000 in prizes. Awards will be given for Best Overall World, Best Institution, and Best Visual. Submissions can be anonymous.

guest lectures

Anthony Aguirre | Will AI Replace Us—or Help Us Thrive? | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

Robert Lempert | How Can We Best Prepare for Unknown Futures? | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

Helen Toner | Who Gets to Decide AI’s Future? | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

Hannah Ritchie | Climate Tech & How AI Can Help Solve Big Problems | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

Anousheh Ansari | Why Space Exploration Matters for Earth | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

Anton Korinek | What Happens to Jobs in an AI Future? | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

Christine Peterson | How Biotech and Nanotech Can Shape the Future | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

Anders Sandberg | How Neurotech Could Change Our Lives | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

Glen Weyl | Can We Use AI to Build a Fairer Society? | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

Gary Ackerman | Red Teaming Our Future With AI | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

Ada Palmer | The Storytelling Tools You Need for Worldbuilding | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

Siri Helle | Psychology of Hope & Meaningful Futures | AI Futures Worldbuilding Course

World Gallery

A collection of hopeful 2035 scenarios built by course participants.

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Harmonic Futures: A 2035 of coherence, not convenience.

By 2035, humanity has realigned its trajectory—moving from dominance and extraction to stewardship and resonance. We design technologies that honor…

Innovation Nation

In 2035, the US uses AI-powered forecasting to guide science funding and innovation policy. These forecasting models were build using…

UniQualia

A future where human nature is properly understood, and various mental hurdles are given enough attention to become a significant…

Protopia Peace Project

Flourish Momentarily With Love Together…

Self-Sustaining Isolated Societies

Self-Sustaining Isolated Societies would nurture human-scaled, principally agricultural, close-knit joie de vivre communities of multi-generational families; maintain a calibrated relationship…

The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is Possible

By 2035, society has been reshaped by AI systems and institutions designed to foster genuine human flourishing, aligning technological advancement…

Elysium

Elysium is a city where longevity is optimized through the fusion of nanotechnology, continuous health tracking, and genetic enhancements. Residents…

sadvipra ai

A Sadvipra-AI DAO PROUT BTC world is a society where: Sadvipra AI leads with wisdom, free from bias or greed…

Threadtime

By 2035, people live with a better sense of time. Not clock time, but threadtime—shared narratives braided across generations….

2035 Rewild

Post-urban. Post-carbon. Post-precision. A world where technology doesn’t manage nature—it listens to it….

The Commons Cloud

By 2035, AI supports decentralized community planning, where decisions are co-designed by citizens and local AI advisors to promote equity,…

Unified Peace

The world has profoundly changed with the explosion of AI and adjacent technologies. Labor is done by robots and nanotechnology…

Human-Centric Technology

Technological development focuses on enhancing quality of life, fostering creativity, and ensuring universal accessibility….

Resilient Planetary Settlements

Humanity expands beyond Earth, establishing self-sustaining colonies that prioritize environmental ethics and cooperation….

Harmonized Urban Ecosystems

Cities become living entities, seamlessly blending technology and natural systems to create habitats that support human and ecological well-being….

Unity Through Diversity

A future where cultures thrive in a globally connected world, celebrating diversity while embracing shared values….

Green Renaissance

A world where cities become forests and technology works symbiotically with nature, achieving net-positive ecosystems….
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Submit Your 2035 World & Win Up to $1,000

Have a vision for a better future? Submit your world by June 30 for a chance to win up to $1,000 in prizes. Awards will be given for Best Overall World, Best Institution, and Best Visual. Submissions can be anonymous.

Submit your world