A library of research, talks and analysis
This page is a collection of articles, videos and presentations on the subjects covered on this site: existential risks, Superintelligence, AI control, Stewardship Democracy, Transhumans, Posthumans and holistic wellbeing during the transition.
About Sustensis – video introduction
Featured Articles
Key articles and analysis
Do Not Pause Advanced AI Development – Consolidate AI
A proposal for partial global AI control through one global centre for safe development of advanced AI systems.
AI Companions and the Future of Holistic Wellbeing
How AI-supported holistic wellbeing can help individuals navigate the transition to coexistence with Superintelligence.
Taking Control over AI before it starts controlling us
Analysis of the urgency and methods for establishing meaningful human control over advanced AI systems.
The Master Plate
How Transhuman governors could control AI from within using direct brain-computer interfaces.
What next after the AI Safety Summit?
Assessment of the outcomes and implications of global AI safety summits for humanity’s transition.
Shaping the future of AI to remain in control
Why 2030 may be a civilisational tipping point and how we can shape AI’s trajectory to preserve human autonomy.
Presentations
Video presentations
Presentations delivered at London Futurists events, conferences and other forums on existential risks, Superintelligence, Transhumans and the civilisational transition.
From BAD to BRIGHT Future
Presentation for London Futurists on the civilisational transition from existential risks to a positive outcome for humanity.
Could Transhumans save Homo Sapiens?
A meandering road to civilisational transition – exploring how augmented humans could safeguard the species.
Prevail or Fail – Preparing for AGI by 2030
Part 1 of the presentation based on Tony Czarnecki’s book on humanity’s options for the transition period.
Geopolitics in the age of AGI
The consequence of the Paris AI Action Summit on 11th February and the Munich Security Confernece on 15.2.2025 reverberate even more strongly after the most recent claim by President Trump, that it was Ukraine, which started the war.
Books by Sustensis Researchers
Books by Tony Czarnecki
Who could save Humanity from Superintelligence?
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A comprehensive analysis of existential risks, AI control methods, Transhumans as potential supervisors of Superintelligence, and the path to the Big Coexistence.
Federate to Survive
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Humanity needs to federate as a planetary civilization, or the human species may become extinct. However, realistically, it would be impossible to federate all nations based on common values today. So what can we do?
Democracy for a Human Federation
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The cornerstone of a reformed democracy must be a new system of Universal Values of Humanity, which must reflect deep social and technological changes, impacting the way we live and interact with each other. We need to pass these values to maturing AI, so that it becomes a friendly Superintelligence.
Becoming a butterfly
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A comprehensive analysis of existential risks, AI control methods, Transhumans as potential supervisors of Superintelligence, and the path to the Big Coexistence.
Towards the Big Consensus
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Humanity needs to federate as a planetary civilization, or the human species may become extinct. However, realistically, it would be impossible to federate all nations based on common values today. So what can we do?
Prevail or Fail
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Civilisational shift to the world of Transhumans. An exploration of what humanity must do to survive and thrive during the transition to coexistence with Superintelligence.
Books by David Wood
The Case for Active Transhumanism
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Accelerating technological change threatens to shatter the human condition in multiple ways. We – all of us – face profound questions over the management of artificial intelligence, nanoscale computers, bio-engineering, cognitive enhancements, ubiquitous robots, drone swarms, nuclear power, planet-scale geo-engineering, and much more.
The Death of Death… and other books
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Is death inevitable? Until now, the history of mankind has been marked by this fatal fact. Religions, borders and progress are born from an ancient fear of death, comfort from this fear man often found only in religious paradigms.
Here is the link to David’s 12 other books on Delta Wisdom
Books by Bruce Lloyd
Power, responsibility & Wisdom
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Wise decision-making also, inevitably, involves moral/ethical choices and this occurs every time we make a decision. Hence, it is not surprising that we find that the comments we might define as Wisdom are essentially comments about the relationship between people, or their relationship with society, and the universe as a whole.
Other publications
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PhD (by published work): ‘The Future of Offices and Office Work: and its Implications for Organisational Strategy’
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Creating and Managing New Ventures, edited papers from Long Range Planning, Pergamon Press (1989)
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Creating Value: Through Acquisitions, Demergers, Buyouts and Alliances,
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Edited papers in the Best of Long Range Planning, (1997)1995-6 –
Sustensis Platforms
Related initiatives
Consensus AI
AI-enabled Consensual Debating. A new style of debates and decision-making for Citizens’ Assemblies, supported by advanced AI Assistants. Participants can debate remotely and come to agreement consensually.
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Unlike HAI Life Companion, Consensus AI supports the governance side of a global transformation: preparing democratic institutions for coexistence with a new form of intelligence.
HAI Life Companion
AI-supported Holistic Wellbeing. Helps you define your life purpose, clarify your goals, and translate them into practical daily tasks, all tailored to your unique Life Story and Character Traits.
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This is the personal side of a global transformation: preparing ourselves, our families, and our communities for coexistence with a new form of intelligence.