Show HN: A choose-your-own-adventure through 28 possible AI futures

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Singularity Possibilities Map

What do you think happens with AI? Walk through ~20 questions about AI capability, alignment, governance, and power — and see the future your beliefs imply, with a narrative timeline of how it unfolds.

An interactive choose-your-own-adventure through possible AI futures, drawn from the public discourse about AI safety, AGI, and the technological singularity. 13 outcome families branch into 28 distinct scenarios, ranging from The Flourishing (genuine shared abundance) to The Ruin (civilizational catastrophe), with everything in between: plateaus, captures, standoffs, escapes, and chaos. The app also generates personalized vignettes based on your profession — how each world event reaches you specifically.

The 28 possible outcomes

The Plateau: The Copilot

The Plateau: The Capable Tool

The Plateau: The Near Miss

The Plateau: The Long Plateau

The Automaton

The Gilded Singularity: The Fast Lane

The Gilded Singularity: The Long Divide

The Gilded Singularity: The Two-Track Singularity

The New Hierarchy: The Instant Caste

The New Hierarchy: The Slow Enclosure

The New Hierarchy: The Archipelago

The Flourishing: The Acceleration

The Flourishing: The Global Compact

The Flourishing: The Uneven Singularity

The Capture

The Standoff: The AI Cold War

The Ruin: The AI War

The Ruin: The Pyrrhic Victory

The Mosaic: The Distributed Flourishing

The Mosaic: The Precarious Mosaic

The Mosaic: The Fragile Mosaic

The Failure: Wrong Metrics

The Escape: The Benevolent Escape

The Escape: The Paperclip

The Escape: The Accumulation

The Alien AI: The Alien Purpose

The Alien AI: The Extinction

The Chaos

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Singularity Possibilities Map

What do you think happens with AI?

A tool for thinking about the possibilities of superintelligence.

Walk through key questions, from how fast AI advances, to whether it can be controlled, to what labs and governments do, and and see how AI could reach you personally and professionally.

~5 minutes · 28 possible outcomes

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Questions and outcomes drawn from the public discourse about possible AI futures.

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