Sources of prosperity
What new productive capabilities could human intelligence, AI and automation create?
03 / Research & Future Societies
Investigating the conditions
for shared prosperity.
How could extraordinary technological capabilities help everyone meet essential needs while expanding economic freedom and human development?
Our central programme
Universal Prosperity
in the Age of AI.
A long-term programme to investigate economic, social and institutional models for a future of widely shared material prosperity.
We connect questions about AI and automation with entrepreneurship, technological dividends, changing work and access to knowledge.
Explore the programmeProgramme in development
The initial research agenda and collaborations are being developed. We welcome rigorous inquiry, constructive disagreement and approaches that can be tested.
Lines of inquiry
A broad question. Concrete starting points.
Institutions and opportunity
Which arrangements could broaden access to gains while preserving choice and initiative?
Work and technological dividends
How might income, ownership, entrepreneurship and meaningful activity evolve?
Knowledge and human development
How can material security open greater possibilities for learning, creativity and individual growth?
The next step
Work on the questions that shape the future.
We welcome researchers, universities, businesses and philanthropic institutions interested in developing this programme.
Discuss research cooperation