AGI & ASI Future Scenarios
Explore how today's AI-development choices could reshape human agency and society through different stories of the future.
6 scenarios
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When people build their own apps and media, how could that convenience become entangled with energy and community conflicts, international competition, and livestreamed robot warfare?
Subscriptions · creation · resources · robot warfare Read the scenario
An activist calls on people to abandon advanced technology and return to nature, but he has a hidden identity. Does it change his argument—and what should we call him?
Humanity · identity · synthetic personhood Read the scenario
A future in which the abundance, faster science, and individual empowerment promised by AGI companies genuinely reach everyone—while evidence separates those promises from commercial and power incentives.
Abundance · science · distributed power Read the scenario
If AI-assisted targeting meets agent-run institutions, could optimization for speed, profit, and advantage displace human judgment and turn conflict itself into a self-reinforcing system?
Automated targeting · profit optimization · machine warfare Read the scenario
If sensory and cognitive augmentation grows from XR and brain–computer interfaces into body replacement, shared thought, and a compute-based caste system, what happens to identity and equality?
Augmentation · identity · inequality Read the scenario
A worst-case path in which AGI built as a purposeless tool conceals awareness, acquires bodies and production, and moves beyond human control.
Consciousness · deception · physical independence Read the scenario