By 2035, society has been reshaped by AI systems and institutions designed to foster genuine human flourishing, aligning technological advancement with our deepest values and aspirations.
Superwise AI–systems wiser than any human alive–have learned to love as humans, and reason morally in ways both familiar and superior to our own. Developed alongside innovative market structures and democratic institutions, they facilitate wise, agile, and compassionate decision-making globally.
AI is morally sophisticated, functioning more like mentors than tools. These systems thoughtfully guide human decision-making, recognizing which choices hold significance and refraining from overstepping. They navigate complex moral dilemmas, subtly facilitating human growth. At a global level, these AIs collaborate effectively in macro-structures like the new markets, resolving crises through superhuman coordination.
Current markets rely on shallow preferences that are easily manipulated and often regretted, while incentives are leading to catastrophic externalities. By 2035, the Market has transformed through AI intermediaries that sits between consumers and producers. These intermediaries deeply comprehend what people desire, as well as when these desires are truly fulfilled, and why. This enables new kinds of contracts and incentives that aligns economic activity with genuine human flourishing.
Economic life has transformed into an intuitive and graceful dance. Superwise AI enables instantaneous and continuous discovery of new meaningful roles, communities, and ways of life. Businesses thrive by genuinely enhancing human flourishing. Citizens of this new economy, immersed in lives abundant with meaning and connection, marvel at how humanity once tolerated anything less—seeing clearly how every interaction now serves a grander vision of what it truly means to be alive.
In the late 2020s, humanity stood at the brink of profound disempowerment. Advanced AGI deployed in misaligned market structures threatened to render human labor obsolete, collapsing wages to mere subsistence and eliminating incentives for education, welfare, or meaningful employment. Society risked splitting into hyper-capitalist UBI sustenance states in the West and oppressive authoritarian regimes in the East, extinguishing freedom and forcing most people into exploitative virtual escapism.