I felt the warmth of the light beaming through my window and realized it was time to get up. I was excited about the day ahead as it marked a milestone in my life – my Passion Exploration Journey had begun. I just ended middle school and was beginning Life School, an exciting new aspect of my life that I was embarking on. So far, my education had been focusing on developing a strong relationship to self and expanding my cognitive skills, so a new challenge was much needed. I was going to embark on an experiential learning adventure and learn how to relate, collaborate, and become an actor to drive change to maintain balance, sustainability, and peace in our world.
Even though I was a bit scared to be on my own aboard the Zeppelin for the first time without the physical companionship of my parents, it was reassuring to have their holograms by my side – just by saying their names. “How long will it take to arrive at the Island of Zepfrika?” – Their hologram blipped into existence next to me, taking the form of my parent in their morning wear, holding a cup of coffee. They gave me a kind, reassuring smile, and whispered: “Enjoy the ride – time does not define your trip, but rather the way you experience it.” Their voice sounded just like them, and their words eased the stress building up inside me.
I loved riding on the Zep, since it was powered by solar energy in the day and wind energy at night. The silence of its engine as it swiftly and graciously penetrated the clouds allowed me to feel aloof from my past and inspired and excited about my journey. The Zepellin was so spacious inside, so comfortable, as all of us onboard were basically taking just ourselves. Most of us had a selection of our AGI wearables, each one strategically implanted in a chakra point of our body. AGI´s magnified and complemented the function and purpose of the chakra for our inner balance. Many of us carried the crown chip which is the control center of all the wearables: This chip replaced the technology previously contained in handheld devices – which limited humans in so many ways always occupying one of their hands, ruining their spines and necks. – and most importantly, disconnecting them from other humans by unstimulating eye contact for interaction and communication. Several of us had the third eye chip, which with four consecutive blinks of the eyelids, activate the handkerchip. This digital device provided visual content in a flexiscreen that lightly adhered to any part of our body, simply snaped out with our touch, and slipped back on, anywhere we touch. It was light, comfortable, and wore on like clothes. The throat chip is one I needed to carry, as it allowed me to verbally communicate in the language spoken at every destination of my journey. When I spoke, this chip automatically translated my words into the language of the destination I was exploring. This made my interactions so much easier and fluent. The most important chip I took along was the heart chip which activated an empathy and caring sensor to ensure our interactions with our world were always guided by a moral compass – reminding us that we are individuals that exist as a part of a whole. The wonderful attribute of the AGI wearables is that we had free will to decide when and if we need them – and we had the control to program their functionalities aligned to our life goals.
Zepfrika was a special destination, my first stop in my new adventure. This Zeppelin landing isle was the first one established midway in the Atlantic between South America and South East Asia– enabling a direct line flight from Bogotá, Colombia directly to the island city state of Singapore. On these islands, most of the inhabitants were non-binary – as this place was where the transition of humanity began, to identify our race as one humankind, not a race defined by our biological sexual functions, or by our gender expression or gender roles. Our potential as humans should have never been defined by how we look on the outside to others. Without a doubt, our potential is defined by what we observe within and how we express our talent and abilities through our actions and interactions with the world that surrounds us.
This was the purpose of my Passion Exploration Journey – and at Zepfrika I would enroll in the Research University with the goal to find my true essence and authentic self. I think that being away from my family, school, friends I grew up with, away from my neighborhood and town, would certainly allow me to, at my young age of 14, find a truer purpose for my own life. Teenagers before my time were placed like dough in cookie cutters, where society and social norms determined their paths, their expected contributions, their structure for success – unfortunately always measured by material gain and power. My life opportunity would be different and I felt very grateful for it. Humanity`s evolution happens through the transformation of societies composed of individuals, like me, who become inspired and drive change for the common good.
As I was imagining my arrival to Zepfrika, I suddenly felt my root chip trigger the signal it was time to eat. I stretched out from the seat, looked out the window to see the beautiful clouds in the sky above, and glanced below, to see the majestic Andes mountains below, covered with patches of at least ten varieties of green, swiveling dirt roads, and crystal-clear rivers bringing life and joy to every corner of earth they touched. I felt blessed that the Climate Change Policy and Global Coalition to Stop Global warming established a quarter of a century ago allowed me to contemplate the beauty of our earth and our humanity today, September 12, 2045.

Answers to prompts

A. A civil society that is finding fulfillment in their lives [exploration phase after Middle-School], political parties that are not fighting for power [China+USA+EU understood their leadership roles], and nation-states that are more intertwined are helping our world to be safe and aspirational [Zeppelin explorations + non-migration nation-states connectedness]. Augmented intelligence has been fully achieved, were humans are searching for flourishment as the main goal in synergy with AGI-biochips, AGI-humanoids-holograms, and AGI-harmonized global economy. One of the problems with 2022 education and socialization was that it was based on male-chauvinism, patriarchalism, and elitism. People in power in that year were ‘fighting’ for maintaining that power: be it a President, a more developed nation-state, a father, a CEO, and so forth. Thanks to the changes we envision in several social institutions, being ‘successful’ was not tied to ‘endless accumulation of power’ but in producing fulfillment and flourishing through the social institutions and mediated by deep-relationships [where AGI, using bio coherence and immaterial communication, was key to this social transformation]. UBI was very important in achieving this, since allow people to have time to flourish, thanks to the part-time done by AGI-humanoids-holograms. 

Q. The dynamics of an AI-filled world may depend a lot on how AI capability is distributed. In your world, is there one AI system that is substantially more powerful than all others, or a few such systems, or are there many top-tier AI systems of comparable capability? Or something else?

A. The co-centers of power continues to be USA+EU+China. However, the way that those powerful nations exert their power shifted 180º. They achieved grandness using the ‘wisdom of the crowd’ and Zeppelin-exploration lives, where ‘great minds’ of these co-centers of power had 3 or 4 journeys through their lives where they live in sub-centers of powers like Latin America and the Caribbean, Africa, and South-Asia. By having these 2-4 years periods-of-life outside their home-based lives helped in several ways: more development in the sub-centers of power; stop migration to the co-centers of power; more fulfilling lives; mindset of slowness reduce jungle-type competition that was all over the place in year 2022. Hence, AI patents continue to be mainly done in multinationals (now social big-entrepreneurship) in USA+EU+China, but with the collaboration of great developers in Latin America, Africa, South Asia, and Eastern Europe [in year 2037 Rusia became a ‘collaborating nation’ of EU]. Tensions continues to arise, but polarization has been highly reduced, as well as solitude. Co-centers of power were inspired by two books written in 2011 and 2020 by the Humanistic Management Network, where multinationals were more competitive, productive, and workers had more fulfilling lives thanks to: distribution of power, controlling processes and not workers, educating their workers into how to have true and deep dialogue within the workspace, and reducing family-work conflicts to almost non-existent.

Q. How has your world avoided major arms races and wars, regarding AI/AGI or otherwise?

A. Successful psychopaths that achieved powerful positions plummeted in the last 20 years, thanks to a wise use of AI, later AGI, and by changes in social institutions, mainly education, family and the workplace, which impacted on other social institutions like the media and government (policy, law and regulations). The solitude crisis in so-called developed but undercivilzed nation-states at the end of the 20s, created a social pressure so high, that the world started to shift toward new social arrangements: based on fulfillment, flourishing, and deep-relations. AI and later AGI, was regarded at the 2029 United Nations meeting, as a key tool to help achieve flourishment in global citizens. Developers at the BIG-9 multinationals, that controlled the patent-creation in AI/ML/DL did a massive strike in 2030 to stop producing autonomous arms. United Nations created a regulation that only non-profit companies could continue producing autonomous arms. Big tensions arise during the 30s between Russia, China and USA, but the shift done on those years were key to reduce possible major arms races. Nation-states that didnt want to be part of the Zepellin-exploration non-migration global arrangements had some minor wars with bordering countries, but they were managed through a harmonious emerging co-center of power arrangement. 

Q. In the US, EU, and China, how and where is national decision-making power held, and how has the advent of advanced AI changed that?

A. US+EU+China as evolved and conscious co-centers of power of the global AGI-order is a harmonious one in 2045, but with a lot of tensions. The sub-centers of power LA+Afrk+SAsia, however, want more voice on the AGI-patent-making process. The year 2045 tension is centered around that structural reality. Although United Nations in year 2035 pushed for a regulation within the WTO-World Trade Organization to give special tariffs to those co-centers of powers that exchange more knowledge and include more developers from the sub-centers of power in their AGI-patent creation. Also, tariffs reduction in the globalized economy, AI-monitored, were given to co-centers of power that had more Zeppelin-explorations exchange to sub-centers of power. 

Q. Is the global distribution of wealth (as measured say by national or international gini coefficients) more, or less, unequal than 2021’s, and by how much? How did it get that way?  (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gini_coefficient)

A. More than the Gini coefficient, we focused on Oxfam’s ‘1%’ indicator. The positive changes within the 1% indicator, to say, more number of families within the 1%, is a better predictor of reducing to zero the Gini coefficient. The 1%-indicator is an ‘umbrella’ of the Gini [or Gini close to 1 is a by-product of a bad 1%-indicator]. Since the market is being facilitated by AI-algorithms to avoid unlimited accumulation and men are less prone to be the alpha.man, plus the educational changes, successful are not trying to accumulate more material things. Instead, a balanced life is more embraced by the 1% of the wealthy, that by year 2045 23,000 families are part of the indicador, compared to 6 in year 2022—with a huge spike between year 2038 where 9,000 were the ‘1%’. However, inequality is still present in the world, specially in the so-called underdeveloped nation-states. But the development on new businesses thanks to the Zeppelin-exploration travels of 2-4 years of people from so-called developed nation-states has make a huge difference for these excluded countries. Still there are few dictatorships in small countries, where inequality is rampant.

Q. What is a major problem that AI has solved in your world, and how did it do so?

A. Solitude, or the low-social skills developed by humans for having deep-relationships [that peaked in year 2030]. And also, reducing the likelihood of having a speculative-economic market.

SOLITUDE: by developing IRL, later PRL (purposeful-reinforcement-learning) to develop AI-tools (sensors) that were able to measure immaterial interactions, mainly energy and human-bio-fields. In year 2022 humans, the majority, were highly ignorant on those social skills that humans have—an evolution from spacial and emotional intelligence, plus the capacity of mammals to communicate energetically. In year 2022 society were reluctant to accept the last 40 years of research by Noetic Institute about humans social skills like immaterial communication. Social institutions were drastically changed because of these sensors that were part of the AGI-humanoids-holograms, and also part of the bio-chips that humans voluntarily installed in their bodies. Teaching, parenting, schooling, management, health, and so forth were drastically changed thanks to this AGI-tools: biosensors.

NON-SPECULATIVE-MARKET: since Nobel winners (Stiglitz, Sen) stablished that the market is asymmetric, AI algorithms were legally ingrained in the markets (Wall Street, etc) to avoid as much as possible. Supply and demand forces were humanly manipulated under the ‘lye’ of the ‘invisible hand’. The reality behind that was speculation for more profits. They learned the story of a small bank in Boston, Wainwright: in 20 years nobody stop paying their debts—challenging the economic mantra of ‘market-stages’].

Q. What is a new social institution that has played an important role in the development of your world?

A. Immaterial Communication Global Governance-ICGG: It is an independent agency but it is funded by governments and it adhere to the United Nations Human Rights and Neo-human rights principles. Within nation-states are differences in how they manage it. In some it is part of the Minister of Solitude, and in some it is part of the sociological studies, but does not reside explicitly in some agency. However, it is accepted as other social institutions, like the Family or Education.

The ICGG has three main objectives: 1. To create and maintain the body of knowledge that it is used in schools about what it is IC and how it is part of our living existence; 2. To fund new research; 3. To be vigilant about the Neo-human rights that comes with IC; 4. To create the legal framework to stop invasive marketing campaigns based on holographic sensors in shops and elsewhere.

Immaterial communication—or the biocoherence sense that humans have—has changed they way governments understand well-being, for a more instrumentalized version of reality to a more existentialist one. Since bio-energy fields, from Heisenberg principle, cannot be measured and it is uncertain, all we can have as humans and as humanoids is an approximation of reality—verosimilitud.