FutureScapes

FutureScapes is a DARI initiative to map, compare, monitor, and explain the full spectrum of futures imagined for humanity in the age of superintelligent AI. It is designed as a public-facing research and foresight platform that collects the major scenarios now discussed across academia, policy, industry, media, online communities, and popular culture - from abundance, longevity, and human enhancement to disempowerment, mass unemployment, civilizational rupture, and extinction. DARI's own mission is to prepare humanity for coexistence with superintelligent AI through research, public engagement, policy influence, and long-term stewardship. FutureScapes operationalizes that mission in a concrete and highly visible form.

Each futurescape will be presented as a structured scenario profile: what the scenario claims, who its main proponents are, what arguments support it, what critiques challenge it, where it tends to be most accepted, and what its likely implications are for work, governance, education, meaning, social order, inequality, culture, security, and human survival. The result is not a single prediction, but a navigable atlas of competing worldviews about the human-ASI relationship. That approach is aligned with established foresight practice, which uses divergent scenarios to explore risks, opportunities, and uncertainty rather than pretending there is only one future.