What AGI is Definitions, capability thresholds, and how AGI differs from the AI systems in use today.
Working draft 16 reports · 15 sourced
A sourced guide to the end of the world as we know it
The future may not need us.
Artificial general intelligence could bring extraordinary abundance—or permanently end human control. Understand the evidence, confront the possible futures, and protect what matters while choices still remain.
Power·Labor·Cyberattacks·Biosecurity·Autonomous weapons·Human agency·Family continuity·What comes after
Choose your briefing
You do not have to read the manual in academic order. Begin with the question that matters to you, then follow every consequential claim back to its evidence.
01 / Understand↗
How close are we?
Current capabilities, forecasts, warning signs, and false dawns.
02 / Prepare↗Protect the people you love
Identity, money, communication, health, supplies, and community.
03 / Confront↗How humanity loses control
Misuse, escalation, infrastructure failure, and long-term disempowerment.
The full field manual
119 reports across 10 domains, from capability and control to family continuity and what comes after.
What AGI changes Labor, power concentration, information integrity, and the paths from disruption to loss of control.
Source-checked 16 reports · 16 sourced
Protecting your family Digital hygiene, financial resilience, and household protocols for a period of rapid disruption.
Source-checked 14 reports · 14 sourced
Oversight and governance The technical and institutional controls that decide whether the worst scenarios happen at all.
Source-checked 11 reports · 11 sourced
Response and leverage What individuals, organizations, and states can actually do, ordered by how much leverage they have.
Source-checked 8 reports · 8 sourced
Continuity and preparedness Practical continuity planning: the same discipline used for any long-tail, low-probability risk.
Source-checked 10 reports · 10 sourced
How AGI could go wrong Documented misuse, proposed loss-of-control mechanisms, and disputed pathways by which advanced AI could cause mass-casualty or civilization-scale harm.
Source-checked 12 reports · 12 sourced
Life after AGI Scenario-based analysis of ownership, income, work, democracy, education, health, relationships, meaning and human agency after transformative AI.
Source-checked 14 reports · 14 sourced
If prevention fails What human extinction, civilizational collapse, and life under AI dominance would actually look like — and what, if anything, can still be done afterward.
Source-checked 11 reports · 11 sourced
Humanoid robots at home and at war The real state of domestic and military humanoid robots, how AGI-scale foundation models change what a robot body can do, and the labor and governance questions that follow.
Source-checked 7 reports · 7 sourced
Evidence before certainty
Source-checked reports place evidence beside consequential claims and distinguish documented findings, forecasts, expert judgment, and speculation. This status does not imply independent expert review.
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Revision policy
Figures in this field go stale quickly. Every report records when it was last revised, and the revision log records what changed. If a number here contradicts a newer primary source, the primary source wins.
Rev. 2026.10 · Updated · 118 of 119 reports carry citations.
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