AI Futures — Choose Your Own Adventure
Sixteen futures for AI, told as a choose-your-own-adventure across four axes — capabilities, demand, openness, and economic propagation — with sector takes for silicon, frontier labs, AI-native startups, and incumbents.
AI Futures · Choose Your Own Adventure Pick four assumptions. See the world they make. There are four axes that, between them, determine almost every consequential question about the next decade of AI. Sixteen futures sit at their corners. Toggle the dials below and read how silicon, frontier labs, AI-native startups, and incumbents fare in each. Capabilities Do model capabilities plateau or take off? Demand for intelligence Does it saturate, or stay unlimited? Access Do frontier models break away, or does OSS stay tight? Economic propagation Does the real economy absorb it fast or…
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