2050: Who's in Control?

'2050: Who's in Control?' is a game built using the ArcWeave platform for people to explore choices and power structures in a world shaped by advanced  Artificial Intelligence technologies.

  • How is life with Universal Basic Income? How is life without it?

  • Can wealth inequalities exist with an abundance of AI-driven productivity?

  • What happens when AI systems are misaligned?

Find out and play it here.

Your first choice...

You have just graduated from The British Institute for Human and AI Symbiotic Existence (HASE), the final preparation for living in a world of AI Super-intelligence. Now it is time for you to start taking decisions.

Will you opt-in to AI Basic Universal Income, where you get money for accommodation, food and decent leisure activities for just 2 hours of daily training AI models?

Or will you choose to work? Work is in the servicing industry, where human involvement is most needed as AI models have not yet mastered embodiment.

The choice is yours.

Characters you may meet...

Ex Frontier Model Founder

Bianca and Cosimo

Aida

Fabio

Places you may explore...

The Care Home

The Library

The Beach

The Conti-Harris Villa

The Art Exhibition...

Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks sat, so others could stand,
A quiet defiance that swept through the land.
With courage and calm, she sparked the fight,
For justice and freedom, she lit the light.

Lorenzo Medici

Lorenzo the Magnificent, with wealth and art,
Made Florence bloom, played a cunning part.
A patron of genius, in power he thrived,
Yet in politics and gold, he too contrived.

Mark Zuckerberg

Mark Zuckerberg, with code in hand,
Connected the world, a digital land.
From dorm room dreams to empire's might,
But privacy's cost casts a shadowed light.

Conti Harris

Conti-Harris, driven by a curious fire,
Sought to build, but what’s his desire?
Innovation or control, the lines intertwine,
His true intentions, hard to define.

How will things work out...?

Credits

Image Credits
Images generated with ChatGPT 4o (Open AI) by Francesca Gomez

Except:
group of people swimming on beach by @m_hampi on Unsplash.com
iPhone in the wilderness by Jamie Street on Unsplash.com
Safe/Secure/Smartphone by franckinjapan on Unsplash.com
a table with food and wine by @oskark on Unsplash.com
A large indoor swimming pool by Patrick Robert Doyle (@teapowered) on Unsplash.com

Audio Credits
TownSquareAmbience by ftpalad on Freesound.org
Cicadas by dethrok on Freesound.org
Phone notification by Tundidor on Freesound.org
Birds singing by martinabg on Freesound.org
Waves Lapping Shore by Tom_kaszuba on Freesound.org
Italian Beach by utuherz on Freesound.org
Venice Lido Beach by elkinjn on Freesound.org
Gym Ambience by waweeeby on Freesound.org
Meow Meow by kjartan_abel on Freesound.org
Intimate Tango - Doug Maxwell_Media Right Productions on YouTube Audio Library
Ambient background music by UNIVERSFIELD on Freesound.org

Inspiration sources

BlueDot AI Safety Course - Cohort June 2024
Without specific countermeasures, the easiest path to transformative AI likely leads to AI takeover by Ajeya Cotra

Other content assistance
Computer code for the AI System was generated with ChatGPT 4o (Open AI) by Francesca Gomez
Verses in the Art Gallery were generated with ChatGPT 4o (Open AI) by Francesca Gomez
News headlines were created using breakyourownnews.com by Francesca Gomez