About SuperFutures

SuperFutures is The Atlas of Human Futures - a structured catalogue of the scenarios humanity has seriously imagined for its long-term future with artificial superintelligence. It combines 55 scenario families, the people and organisations that shape them, the works they cite, and the connections between them into one navigable atlas.

You can browse scenarios through the Scenario Explorer, see the whole atlas as a network on the Graph page, or take the Future-Belief Quiz to see which future your assumptions currently align with.

The methodology behind the atlas is described in the accompanying research paper - Mapping the Unmapped →. That paper also introduces the Cultural Visibility Hypothesis and the theory of Scenario Reflexivity, the atlas’s two theoretical contributions.

The discourse on AI futures is socially salient but cognitively fragmented. Eight major intellectual traditions - existential-risk, techno-optimist, political-economy, governance, accelerationist, decolonial, transhumanist, deliberate-withdrawal - propose fundamentally different futures for the human–ASI relationship, and largely operate in parallel with limited cross-referencing. Existing taxonomic projects either contrast a small number of scenarios (Bostrom 2014; Ord 2020) or focus on narrower domains. SuperFutures aims to catalogue every major scenario currently in active discourse, using one multi-dimensional taxonomy, with systematic scenario-by-scenario cultural mapping.

The atlas treats scenarios as exploratory tools rather than predictions, and as a tagged graph rather than a mutually exclusive list. Appearance in the atlas is never a claim that a scenario will happen.

Policymakers regulate against assumed futures, executives invest against a single scenario, and citizens form opinions shaped substantially by cultural products that dramatise some scenarios while ignoring others. The atlas is designed for anyone who wants a shared, navigable map of those futures rather than a curated selection:

• Researchers and policymakers looking for a defensible, sourced framing of the AI-futures discourse.
• Journalists and educators who need accessible entry points into contested futures.
• Companies, labs, and foundations stress-testing strategies against multiple scenarios.
• General readers curious about which assumptions their instincts about AI actually rest on.

SuperFutures is a project of the DARI Foundation, based in Geneva, Switzerland. The atlas and the accompanying paper are authored by Aleksandar Stojanovic. An editorial review board is being established for the next edition, with independent raters per classification dimension (see Section 7 of the paper).

Scenario prose and classifications are written and reviewed by the editor. Extraction of secondary entities (people, organisations, works, concepts) uses an AI-assisted pipeline - parsers propose candidates, and a human editor approves them before anything enters the live graph. Where AI has proposed field values (summaries, biographical prose, enrichment data), the affected entities carry a metadata.enrichment_source = “LLM-Assisted” flag so the provenance is legible.

Persona sketches and “scene from this future” vignettes on scenario pages are explicitly labelled as illustrative fiction. See How to read a scenario for the breakdown.

For third-party data providers (TMDB, Open Library, iTunes, Wikipedia, Songlink), see Acknowledgements & Sources.

SuperFutures is developed independently under the DARI Foundation. It does not carry advertising, does not sell user data, and has no external editorial funders shaping the scenario selection or classification.

Reach the editorial team at info@dari.earth. You’re welcome to:

• propose missing scenarios;
• flag classification errors or contested claims;
• suggest additional sources or works;
• offer research help.

A dedicated corrections form is on the roadmap. Until it ships, an email to the address above will reach a person.