Abundance for All

What if nobody ever had to go without?

We believe we should build superintelligence and robotics to provide every need, and every reasonable want, for every person on Earth. Not to replace people. To free them.

Film made with AI tools (visuals and narration). A vision, not footage of real events.

Three ingredients

Every need comes down to work, energy and knowing how.

Food, a home, medicine, clean water: behind each one are people's work, power to run it, and the know-how to do it well. We believe three things, together, could supply all of it, for everyone.

AI-generated scene from the film: robotics

01 · Work

Robotics brings the work.

Robots that plant, build, haul and repair could lift the heaviest and dullest labour off every back. We believe that frees people rather than replaces them: the work is the part nobody should have to do in order to eat.

The world's factories now run a record 5 million industrial robots, up 9% in 2025.Source: International Federation of Robotics (press release, Sep 24, 2026) · 2025

AI-generated scene from the film: clean energy

02 · Energy

Clean energy powers all of it.

Machines and minds both run on electricity. Abundant, clean power is what makes everything else possible, and it has to be there for every household, not just some.

Solar produced 8.7% of the world's electricity in 2025.Source: Ember, via Our World in Data · 2025

AI-generated scene from the film: superintelligence

03 · Knowing how

Superintelligence brings the knowing how.

The best doctor's judgement, the best engineer's design, the best teacher's patience: knowledge that is scarce today. We believe superintelligence, built carefully and aimed at everyone, could put it within reach of anyone, anywhere, in their own language.

An AI system's predicted protein structures are now free to every scientist: over 200 million of them.Source: EMBL-EBI AlphaFold Protein Structure Database · 2026

Every human need

This is where the gaps are today.

Real, sourced numbers for the world as a whole, not predictions. They are the distance between the world we have and the one we believe is worth building.

Food

8.5%of people undernourished

8.5% of the world's people were undernourished in 2023.

We believe robots that plant, tend and harvest, guided by a superintelligence that learns every field, could help every harvest reach every table.

Source: World Bank WDI (FAO (SDG 2.1.1)) · 2023 · CC BY 4.0

Water

73.7%of people used safely managed drinking water

73.7% of people used safely managed drinking water in 2024. About one person in four did not.

We believe tireless machines and smarter engineering could build, repair and watch over the pipes, pumps and treatment plants that safe water depends on.

Source: World Bank WDI (WHO/UNICEF Joint Monitoring Programme) · 2024 · CC BY 4.0

Shelter

23.2%of city dwellers lived in slums

23.2% of the world's urban population lived in slums in 2022.

We believe robot builders and AI design could make a safe, good home something that can be built quickly, to a standard, for anyone.

Source: World Bank WDI (UN-Habitat Urban Indicators Database) · 2022 · CC BY 4.0

Explore every need and its sources Data retrieved 2026-10-04. Open data, credited to the agencies named in each tile.

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The foundation

Forest School for AI

Short films where living systems teach the machines we build.

If we build superintelligence and robots to provide for everyone, the foundation matters more than the ambition. We believe that foundation should be permaculture: regenerative, local, designed with nature, so abundance grows in every community instead of flowing up to a few. We can't promise that will happen, but we think it is the surest answer to a fair worry, that the people at the top will keep it all. Abundance rooted in soil, in neighbourhoods and in many hands is much harder to hoard.

Three things permaculture could teach a superintelligence

  • Waste is a design flaw, not a fact of nature.
  • Strength comes from connection, not control.
  • Work with living systems, never against them.

Each lesson below is an AI-generated short film. A new lesson every few days on our Facebook Page and YouTube.

The films

Watch the vision.

Short films about a world we believe is worth building. They are made with AI tools, and labelled that way every time they appear.

AI-generated film

Forest School for AI · Lesson 6 · 0:30

Robot Digs a Ditch, Gardener Shows a Swale

A robot digs a straight ditch down the hill, and the next rain races through it, away from every thirsty plant. An older gardener traces a level line across the slope instead. Together they dig a shallow swale on contour, with a berm on the downhill side. When rain comes, the swale fills, pauses, and slowly soaks in, feeding young fruit trees. A low spillway lets the extra spill over.

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AI-generated film

Abundance for All · a question · 0:33

If Sickness Paid Nothing, Would We Still Be Sick?

In 2023, the world's top 100 arms makers took in $632 billion, rising on the back of wars (SIPRI). In 2024, America spent about $15,000 a person on health care, more than any other rich country, yet Americans live shorter lives than people in peer countries (Peterson-KFF, OECD data). When danger and illness pay, incentives point the wrong way. What if robots made safety, food and care a public good? Not a promise. A better question.

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AI-generated film

Forest School for AI · Lesson 5 · 0:29

A Robot Piled Every Seed in One Spot

A robot rakes every acorn into one big pile under the old oak, so they'll be safe. But the sprouts come up crowded and pale in the shade. A girl points to a jay burying acorns far away, and forgetting a few. Seeds carried off by birds and animals have better odds, so the robot scatters seed across the hill. Years later, the hill is a young forest.

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AI-generated film

Forest School for AI · Lesson 4 · 0:31

Robot Learns to Mulch, Kids Pick Ripe Tomatoes

A robot keeps watering tomato plants in cracked, sun-baked soil, and they keep wilting. An older gardener shows it a better way: a thick blanket of straw mulch. Shaded soil holds water longer and stays cooler, and the straw slowly feeds the soil life. Weeks later, two kids pick ripe tomatoes.

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AI-generated film

Forest School for AI · Lesson 3 · 0:31

Robots Plant the Food Forest, Grandma Picks Free Fruit

Robots turn a bare slope into a food forest: canopy trees, fruiting shrubs, strawberries as ground cover, swales soaking up the rain. Years later, a grandmother walks up the hill and fills her basket. Plant for people you'll never meet.

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Short film · 0:31

Your Job Was Never the Point

Work is not your purpose in life. The people who thrive own things: land, machines, a say in the rules. What if we owned them together? Community land, shared robots, local power, food forests, rules written in the open.

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AI-generated film

Forest School for AI · Lesson 2 · 0:30

Robot Gardener Makes a Rookie Mistake

A robot goes to pull the comfrey and an elder gardener stops it: gardeners chop its leaves to feed the soil. Don't fight the land; work with it.

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AI-generated film

Forest School for AI · Lesson 1 · 0:30

If Superintelligence Studied a Forest First

Imagine teaching superintelligence its first lesson in a forest, not a data center: nothing is wasted, and the strongest system is the most connected. Abundance that is composted, cycled and shared.

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AI-generated film

Short film · 0:31

Imagine a Tuesday you don't have to work

What would you do with a Tuesday that is yours? Fish with your kid, finally paint, help a neighbour, sit quietly. A short film about the time robotics and AI could give back.

Made with AI tools (visuals and narration). This is a vision, not footage of real events.

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Short film · 0:37

What if nobody ever had to go without?

Food, a home, medicine, clean water: every one of them comes down to work, energy and knowing how. A short film about what could change if superintelligence brought the knowing how, robotics the work, and clean energy powered both.

Made with AI tools (visuals and narration). This is a vision, not footage of real events.

How far we've come

From a summer workshop to a Nobel Prize.

A few real moments in AI and robotics. Each one links to its source.

  1. 1956

    The field gets its name

    A summer workshop at Dartmouth, widely seen as the founding event of artificial intelligence as a field.

    Wikipedia: Dartmouth workshop

  2. 1961

    The first industrial robot goes to work

    Unimate takes a job on a General Motors assembly line in Ewing Township, New Jersey.

    Wikipedia: Unimate

  3. 1997

    A computer beats the world chess champion

    IBM's Deep Blue defeats Garry Kasparov in a six-game rematch.

    Wikipedia: Deep Blue

  4. 2011

    A machine wins at Jeopardy!

    IBM's Watson beats champions Brad Rutter and Ken Jennings at the quiz show.

    Wikipedia: Watson

  5. 2012

    Deep learning takes off

    AlexNet wins the ImageNet image-recognition contest with a top-5 error rate of 15.3%.

    Wikipedia: AlexNet

  6. 2016

    AlphaGo beats a Go champion

    DeepMind's AlphaGo wins four of five games against Lee Sedol in Seoul.

    Wikipedia: AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol

  7. 2017

    The transformer

    The paper "Attention Is All You Need" introduces the architecture behind today's large language models.

    Wikipedia: Attention Is All You Need

  8. 2020

    AlphaFold 2 cracks protein folding

    At the CASP14 competition, AlphaFold 2 predicts protein structures with far higher accuracy than any other entry.

    Wikipedia: AlphaFold

  9. 2022

    ChatGPT reaches the public

    OpenAI releases ChatGPT on November 30, 2022.

    Wikipedia: ChatGPT

  10. 2024

    A Nobel Prize for predicting protein structures

    The Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes in part to Demis Hassabis and John Jumper for an AI model that solved a 50-year-old problem.

    NobelPrize.org press release

  11. 2025

    Five million industrial robots at work

    The International Federation of Robotics reports a record 5 million industrial robots operating in the world's factories.

    International Federation of Robotics (press release, Sep 24, 2026)

A timeline is not a forecast. We believe the hard, important part is still ahead of us.

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