Pitch To the Stories

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Stories from the Strange Frontier

Who We Are

Our goal is to platform voices and perspectives that would otherwise get lost in the ether, slop or drudge of AI discourse.

We are looking for an open-minded orientation to the future, in all its strange complexity.

Pitch Ideas

We want to hear your ideas on what the future can and ought to look like,
and how we should go about getting there.

Analytic Writing

  • A deep dive on the Chinese AI community — the key players, how they got to their positions
  • An investigation into post AGI welfare proposals, and why UBI advocates are thinking too small
  • What would a handover to a new species look like? Should it happen?

Narrative Journalism

  • A look at past futurist movements, going back to Wells, and comparing to futurism today
  • An account of just how easy it would be to launch an AI assisted coup
  • A look at AI related cults/new religious movements

Short Fiction

  • A story of the first AI labour strike
  • Day in the life of an ordinary person in a post-AGI world
  • What if we're wrong? A story where AI had negligible impact
  • The underground railroad of people who refuse AI integration: the unenhanced underclass

Treat these examples as illustrative rather than prescriptive! We are mostly interested in what you have to say, as long as it's a sensitive, informed look at the frontier today, or a view into the future.

Final Call

If you have an idea that's been germinating in the back of your mind, that you haven't got around to publishing yet, or that you think is too weird, we would love to hear from you!

PITCH

The future is open for debate.

We hope you will join us.

— Josh, Ben and Aniket