As artificial intelligence advances at an accelerating pace, we are faced with a fundamental question: Will this technology lead to greater human autonomy—or deeper inequality and control?
The Complex Social Systems Project is a bold, interdisciplinary research effort aimed at rigorously exploring the economic, social, and structural changes necessary to ensure that exponential AI progress creates an age of opportunity abundance, not one defined by job scarcity, social unrest, or hyper-concentrated power.
We seek to address questions such as:
- How can societies transition toward greater individual autonomy in a world where intelligent systems take on more labor and decision-making roles?
- What policies, institutions, or incentive structures could enable shared prosperity rather than deepen existing inequalities?
- How can we prevent the concentration of technological power in the hands of a few, and instead design systems that support broad-based agency and democratic control?
To tackle these challenges, this project draws on tools from macroeconomics, complex systems theory, ergodic analysis, and multiplicative calculus—blending the analytical with the imaginative to map out realistic, stable futures where people thrive with AI rather than despite it.
This is not only a research project. It is a systems-thinking experiment in how we design society—before the shape of the future is locked in by the pressures of inertia and inequality.
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