I really like using Ilya: the AI scientist shaping the world as a way of engaging students at the start of a course. The video primarily focuses on the way that AI could go wrong, however, it also starts with “Now, AI is a great thing…”, so it naturally leads to a discussion of positive and negative futures.Positive Futures:One obvious resource on positive futures Foresight Institute’s Existential Hope website. I’ve browsed their content in the past, some of it is kind of interesting, but honestly, I found view it as mostly pretty mid. They also run a fellowship which has an existential hope stream:They recently released The AI future nobody is showing you, which resulted in a wide range of reactions on Twitter. I think this is worth commenting on as it illustrates the challenges with attempting to produce a positive vision. Honestly, I’ve become quite pessimistic here: the gap between what different groups in society want may simply be too wide for it to be possible to find a positive...