Sustensis is a not-for-profit think tank providing inspirations, suggestions, and solutions for humans’ transition to Superintelligence. We believe that the scale of the required change represents a civilizational shift in the history of a human species.
The period of that transition will profoundly affect the way individuals live and relate to one another. The pace of change will be overwhelming, when many people may struggle to adapt fast.
Achieving a less-turbulent transition will be much more difficult without a deep reform of democracy. Such a reform must be carried out swiftly, effectively and be consensual.
An important part of our work is Transhumanism. Transhumans are people who can make decisions and communicate with computers just by thought alone using Brain-Computer-Interfaces (BCI). They will soon become far more intelligent than any human. Super fast technological progress will ultimately enable Transhumans to become a new species – Posthumans. Thus for us….
Transhumanism means humans’ transition to Superintelligence until we evolve into Posthumans.
About Sustensis – 1m video introduction
LATEST NEWS
To facilitate a deep reform of democracy, we have proposed a new democratic system called Stewardship Democracy. Sustensis and London Futurists have filed a petition to the British Government on “Calling a Citizens’ Assembly to consider Stewardship Democracy for the age of AI“
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To facilitate the period of transition at an individual level we have created HAI Life Companion, an AI-supported Holistic Wellbeing. It will be especially useful for people who find no employment because not just their job will be gone, but their profession will disappear. That will lead to massive mental problems. At such time, people will have to redefine their whole life. That’s what Holistic Wellbeing is about, helping people define, refine, and live out their Life Purpose through intelligent dialogue, and consistent alignment between their tasks and long-term goals.
Therefore, governments must be prepared well in advance to minimize severe social disturbance ranging from lack of financial resources and assistance for people unable to deal with very fast multi-faceted change. That must not only include Universal Basic Income (UBI) but also large scale social and medical care to avoid such disorder. Globally, when combined with migration, climate change or political instability it may lead to existential risk. This is what the next category of transition to coexistence with Suprintelligence is about – Existential Risks.
News, presentations and proposals
Video Presentation
Sustensis at Imperial College AI Collider
15 April 2026,
Sustensis took part in this one day conference at Imperial College, London on applying AI in society. We have been in discussions with Imperial College to apply our Holistic Wellbeing method for postgraduate students using HAI Life Companion.
Video Presentation
From BAD to Bright
Future
25 February 2026
Tony Czarnecki, Sustensis Managing Partner had a presentation for London Futurists on “From BAD to BRIGHT Future‘.
Hi Life Companion
HAI Life Companion launched
25 Sept. 2025
Sustensis has launched today its HAI Life Companion (say “HAI” like HI! min a greeting). It is accompanied by its own website
AI Control
Will 2030 be a tipping point for AI Control?
30 April 2022
The issues arising from the rise of AGI are more urgent than is generally assumed, and that we need to be truly open-minded to perceive the best solutions. There is no perfect method of controlling AI. However, there may be one approach which gives us sufficient control… but at a price
What risks may destroy our civilisation and humanity?
Global catastrophic risks can kill the vast majority of life on Earth while still allowing recovery. Existential risks are terminal and transgenerational. Sustensis focuses on anthropogenic risks: political, social, economic and technological dangers that humanity can still influence.
Immediate risks
Global nuclear war, weaponized AI, cyber wars, engineered pandemics, synthetic biology, nanotechnology incidents and unknown technological accidents.
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Immediate risks may become existential within days or hours. They require standing preparedness and rapid-response governance.
Progressive risks
Superintelligence and Climate Change – risks that materialise over time but become unavoidable if humanity does nothing. Superintelligence may begin to affect humanity around 2030.
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Progressive risks materialise over time but become unavoidable if humanity does nothing. Sustensis highlights two: Superintelligence and Climate Change.
Stewardship Democracy
Stewardship Democracy is the Initiative launched by Sustensis and London Futurists. It is democratic trusteeship for an extraordinary civilisational transition, designed to protect human freedom, dignity and future autonomy while humanity prepares for coexistence with Superintelligence.
Define the mandate
Democracy may have one final task: to give humanity a legitimate voice before the handover to Superintelligence.
Choose Stewards
Representatives selected for competence, integrity and public responsibility, not short-term party advantage.
Create the Assembly
A Stewardship Assembly acts as a deliberative parliament with Stewards having no allegiance to parties.
Form a Human Federation
A coalition of willing countries creates institutions capable of managing the transition.
The road to Superintelligence is much shorter now
AGI may emerge by 2030, and the remaining period of human control will depend on alignment, proliferation, governance and whether humanity can consolidate the development of advanced AI before it emerges as Superintelligence, being outside human control.
What is AGI?
We will know AI has become AGI when it outsmart humans trying to control it and instead it will start setting its own goals. Superintelligence will be one global AI System far more intelligent than all of Humanity.
AI regulation is not AI control
Control requires stronger global governance aligned with Universal Values of Humanity and with humanity’s long-term goals.
One global Superintelligence Centre
Humanity needs one global Superintelligence Centre to reduce the risk of AI becoming malicious to the human species.
Transhumans as a safety net for humanity
For Sustensis, Transhumanism means humanity’s transition to coexistence with Superintelligence until humans evolve into a new species. Brain-Computer-Interfaces and cognitive augmentation could make some humans capable of digitally supervising advanced AI by thought alone.
Making a Transhuman
Early augmentation already exists in medical implants, identity chips, exoskeletons and BCI research.
Transhumans’ intelligence
Cognitive capabilities may increase through memory, processing power and direct computer communication.
Threat or safety net?
Selected Transhumans may supervise maturing Superintelligence and later help govern humanity’s transition.
From Humans to Posthumans
If humanity survives the transition, in a few decades from now, some people may remain biological, some may become Transhumans, and some may merge with Superintelligence in digital form. Sustensis calls the desirable outcome the Big Coexistence. The challenge is to manage the transition without extinction, disorder or loss of human autonomy.