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.
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Thanks for reading,
Beatrice,
Existential Hope Program Director
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Just finished section number #1. I'm amazed by how simple, well-structured, and easy to follow this course is.
Crafting my vision of the future felt really empowering.
Looking forward to continuing to work on the following sections.
Thank you for putting this together.