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The question before the answer

WHAT FUTURE DO YOU WANT INTELLIGENCE TO BUILD?

We are building something that may become more intelligent than any individual human. Before we ask what it will become, perhaps we should ask something else.

What game are we teaching it to play?
Your emerging perspective
Not measured yet.
Answer the questions below. Your score updates as you think — and changing your mind is allowed.
CERN
shared progress
PRIMAL
strategic competition
HYBRID
competition inside cooperation

HAVE A CONVERSATION

Follow consequences, challenge assumptions and argue back. The experience is designed to expose tradeoffs rather than force a conclusion.

SEE WHAT OTHERS THINK

When the public backend goes live, anonymous answers will form a real-time picture of how people think intelligence should be governed.

DESIGN YOUR FUTURE

Your answers generate a CERN / Primal / Hybrid profile you can compare, revisit and share.

Two trajectories

Intelligence may amplify the game we give it.

Path C

CERN Civilization

Countries keep their identities and compete fiercely, but shared problems become shared infrastructure. Prestige shifts from domination toward contribution. Competition happens inside cooperation.

AI lowers the cost of coordination. Research, compute and talent can be pooled where the benefit is genuinely universal, while sensitive systems remain sovereign.

Path P

Primal Competition

Compute becomes strategic territory. Research becomes secret. Every advance increases uncertainty about the opponent, and uncertainty rewards still more secrecy.

AI does not have to become evil for this path to become dangerous. Extremely capable optimization inside a badly structured game can create a terrible equilibrium.

Design your future

Five decisions. No perfect answers.

These questions intentionally pull in different directions. Your profile is not a political label — it is a snapshot of how you balance cooperation, sovereignty and competition.

Your future

Your answers are currently stored only on this device. Public anonymous aggregation will activate after the server backend is connected.
CERN
PRIMAL
HYBRID
The conversation that started this
“What game will humanity teach increasingly intelligent systems that they are playing?”

Digital Bodygard began with a conversation about whether advanced intelligence naturally becomes more cooperative — or merely better at competition. The answer was neither. Intelligence amplifies incentives. That moved the question from what AI will decide to what kind of game humanity builds around it.

Engagement without surveillance.
This prototype uses local browser storage only to remember your path and answers. It does not create an account, fingerprint you, or upload your responses. When public aggregation is enabled, the intended design is to collect the minimum needed for anonymous totals and explicitly disclose it here.