Three stories from the near future

Set in the near future, the stories in this feature take place in a world where technological and social infrastructures go beyond the edges of what is already widely accepted as being possible.

In Health in your hands, we spend the day with Lana as she experiences a fully integrated healthcare system which AI helps to seamlessly bridge her personal lived experience, collective diagnosis and peer support.

In Fact versus Fiction, our protagonist Jay introduces us to a multi-layered fact-checking network where experts, citizens and AI work together to continuously learn about and stop the spread of misinformation.

In Creativity combined, a global climate conference becomes a platform for collective visioning and creativity, where generative AI helps to combine, optimise and expand the design ideas of thousands of people around the world.

Our aim is to inspire and provoke a wider debate about how we can best design and deploy hybrid human and machine intelligence to solve problems. And so we invite you to settle in and join us on this journey into the not too distant future…

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