We made a course about AI, the future & hope—It’s live now

A new online course to help you imagine what hopeful futures with AI could look like.

Hi friends,

We just launched the AI Futures Worldbuilding Course on Udemy—a free, self-paced course designed to help more people think clearly and creatively about how AI might shape the future.

This course is for people who want to explore how AI might shape our shared future, and what we can do about it. It’s designed to be accessible and thought-provoking, with no technical background required.

What the course covers:

• How worldbuilding—the structured design of plausible future scenarios—can help us think through the risks and opportunities of AI

• Key domains including exciting new technologies, governance, climate, economics, institutions, and values

• Practical exercises and examples to help you build and test your own AI scenarios

With guest lectures from:

• Anthony Aguirre – Co-founder, Future of Life Institute & Metaculus

• Hannah Ritchie – Deputy Editor, Our World in Data

• Glen Weyl – Political Economist, Microsoft Research & RadicalxChange

• Robert Lempert – Research Director, RAND

• Helen Toner – Director of Strategy, CSET

• Anton Korinek – Professor of Economics, University of Virginia, Brookings

• Gary Ackerman – Associate Professor, Center for Advanced Red Teaming

• Anousheh Ansari – CEO, XPRIZE

• Ada Palmer – Historian & Science Fiction Author

• Christine Peterson – Co-founder, Foresight Institute

• Anders Sandberg – Institute for Future Studies

• Siri Helle – Psychologist & author

You can take the course at your own pace, whenever it fits.
It’s designed to be approachable, engaging, and useful for a wide range of learners.

→ Start the course
→ Learn more

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Thanks for reading,

Beatrice,

Existential Hope Program Director

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