The vision
The society we choose
We face a choice between uncontrolled social disruption and a protected, more prosperous human future. The risks below are foreseeable. They are not inevitable forecasts.
The challenge
Seven connected risks deserve serious investigation before they become entrenched.
Jobs
AI agents and autonomous robots could take on a growing share of intellectual and physical work.
Purchasing power
Productivity could disconnect from employment, wages and the income that reaches people.
Wealth concentration
Economic power could concentrate among those who own autonomous intelligence.
Dependency
People and society could become intellectually dependent on intelligence they neither control nor share in.
Direct harm
Autonomous systems could harm people through decisions or actions.
Autonomous control
People could be exposed to decisions they cannot adequately challenge.
Youth opportunities
Learning, creativity and ambition might no longer lead to meaningful opportunities.
The dream
Imagine a society where AI serves people: safer services, more choice, rewarded expertise and shared productivity. People gain genuine freedom to decide how much they work, learn, care, create and contribute.
This is a vision. It does not describe entitlements that exist today, and the mechanisms that could make it real remain to be investigated and validated.
Young people
Young people have a particular stake in these choices. The initiative treats five questions as central:
- Motivation: keeping good reasons to invest in one’s own capabilities.
- Independent thinking: learning to question and challenge, including when AI gives the answer.
- Safeguarding: protecting children and young people from harm.
- AI literacy: understanding what these systems can and cannot do.
- Education-to-work pathways: keeping meaningful routes from learning into opportunity.
Eight perspectives
These are fictional, illustrative situations. They show the questions each group would face. They are not real cases or promises.
Citizen
Imagine someone who can challenge a decision an AI system made about them, and reach a person who answers for it.
Young person
Imagine a student who still sees a reason to master a difficult subject, and a path from it into meaningful work.
Expert
Imagine a specialist whose knowledge is used by AI under licence, and who is recognised and paid for it.
Entrepreneur
Imagine a founder who can build on AI without surrendering control of their knowledge or their customers.
Employee
Imagine a worker whose job changes, and who has real economic security while deciding what comes next.
Retiree
Imagine a pensioner whose social protection does not depend only on how many people are still in paid work.
Company
Imagine a business that knows exactly what it must answer for when it deploys an autonomous system.
Government
Imagine a public service that responds faster and remains accountable to the people it serves.