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Topic of the Year 2026

THE GREATAI DEBATE

Will AI take your job? Should it make art?Who gets to control it? These aren't hypotheticals.They're happening now, and they affect all of us.

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WHY THIS MATTERS

The numbers tell the story. The conversation is just beginning.

300M+

Jobs exposed to AI automation globally

Goldman Sachs, 2023

3.5 years

Since ChatGPT launched — and AI hasn't slowed down

OpenAI launched Nov 2022

1

Major AI law (EU AI Act) — the rest of the world is still deciding

EU AI Act, Aug 2024

AI could cure diseases, democratize education, and unlock human potential. It could also eliminate millions of jobs, concentrate power in a few companies, and put autonomous weapons on battlefields.

Most people are forming opinions from headlines and hot takes. That's not good enough for decisions this big.

We need real arguments, from real people, face to face. Not consensus — conversation.

THE STAKES ARE REAL

This isn't hypothetical. The smartest people alive are already arguing about it.

The AI does not hate you, nor does it love you, but you are made out of atoms which it can use for something else.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

AI Safety Researcher

Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk, 2008

Development of superhuman machine intelligence is probably the greatest threat to the continued existence of humanity.

Sam Altman

CEO, OpenAI

samaltman.com, 2015

AI is going to represent the biggest transformation in human history. Bigger than fire, bigger than electricity. The question is whether we harness it or it harnesses us.

Peter Diamandis

Founder, XPRIZE & Singularity University

Abundance 360 Summit

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