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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.

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

ToolBox

The future isn’t something that just happens to you. These tools help you think clearly about what’s coming, picture the world you want, and find your role in building it.

There is no single entry point; feel free to start wherever is most relevant to you.

Core Concepts & Vocabulary

Challenges to Explore

Solution Approaches

Worldbuilding Tools

Modeling & Forecasting

Foresight Projects & Experts

Taking Action

Recommended Readings

Governance models

Course Worksheet

World Gallery

A collection of hopeful 2035 scenarios built by course participants.

Explore our previous winners.

 

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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….
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