Preparing for an AI future
A brief exercise for thinking through how you might navigate different AI futures.
Which future feels closest?
Use the marker to explore futures, and choose what you think is most likely.
The description below gives you a starting point to reflect on, not a prediction.
Drag the circle, or click anywhere in the triangle.
Plateau
AI progress and adoption level off. This could come from the technology,
if capability gains get smaller and harder to win. It could come from economics, if the
returns do not justify the spending. It could come from policy, if governments slow
deployment down.
Reflection
What would this future change about how you want to live, work, or prepare?
Diffusion
AI becomes capable, cheap, and widely available. People across many
sectors use it routinely and get more done than they could before. Roles change, but the work
still needs people to direct it, judge it, and be accountable for it.
Reflection
What possibility here would you want to make more room for in your own life?
Consolidation
AI keeps getting more capable, and the frontier pulls further and further
away. Access to that frontier is important to stay competitive. People may start to play a
shrinking role in the workforce, and seek increasing social supports.
Reflection
What would help you keep meaningful choice and agency in this future?