No. 9
  • Digital Adventure
  • 5 mins
  • 1 player

Four Forks

A short scenario about where the AI surplus goes

Story

The Story

The AI optimists turn out to be right. AI delivers its promised dividends, and most work becomes optional.

But even this “good” timeline forks on two questions: who controls the surplus, and what does it fund?

Four people have real leverage: the President, the CEO of an AI Lab, the head of the country’s largest union, and the leading policy podcast host.

Where will you steer the country—and how will you keep your seat for long enough to get there?

Why Play?

  • You vs. The Country

    Weigh your own standing and personal incentives against where you’re pushing the world.

  • State vs. Shareholders

    Pick who controls the surplus: the government that would tax it, or the companies that built it.

  • Libraries vs. Subscriptions

    Decide what the dividend buys: public spaces and civic infrastructure, or atomized comfort and individual consumption.

Four Forks

Game Designer and Writer
Laurence Pevsner
Consultant
Stephen Rubino

A Riskgaming scenario from Lux Capital

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