The Worldbuilding Challenge:

Co-Creating the World of 2045

In 2024, we hosted an 8-week, live cohort course focused on one bold question: What could a positive, AI-enabled future look like?
This interactive program brought together participants from around the world to explore climate, AI, ethics, and the social systems shaping our future—through the lens of worldbuilding.

Rather than focus solely on risks, we challenged participants to build well-informed, optimistic futures. The course integrated AI alongside other emerging technologies and emphasized storytelling as a tool for shaping long-term strategy.

This course is no longer active, but its impact continues. The worlds created during the program now live on as examples of hopeful, grounded visions for 2045.

Curriculum

Week 1: Existential Risk and Existential Hope
Week 2: Theoretical Basics & Tech Tracks
Week 3: Worldbuilding I - The “How” of Worldbuilding
Week 4: Worldbuilding II - Technology & Science
Week 5: Worldbuilding III - Values & Community
Week 6: Worldbuilding IV - Economy & Institutions
Week 7: Worldbuilding V - Red-Teaming the Worldbuilds
Week 8: Worldbuilding VI - Presentation of Worlds & Taking Action

Explore the Worlds

Curious what came out of the program?

View the worlds created during the 2024 course →

Explore the worlds created in our 8-week worldbuilding program, showcasing innovative and positive visions of a world with advanced AI in 2045 designed to inspire a hopeful future.

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Mark Miller on Existential hope
Mark Miller (Agoric, Foresight Institute) interviewed on Existential Hope and Foresight Institute, during Vision Weekend 2018.
Anders Sandberg on Existential Hope
Anders Sandberg (Future of Humanity Institute) interviewed on Existential Hope and Foresight Institute, during Vision Weekend 2018.
Existential Risk and Existential Hope | Toby Ord
Toby Ord, Future of Humanity Institute Allison Duettmann, Foresight Institute