This document discusses the need for AI systems to follow a "hero's journey" approach in order to ensure beneficial outcomes for humanity. It argues that AI development should be guided by a "moral hypothesis" rather than just business or technical goals. The document contains two parts, with the first part discussing how adopting a view of progress and positive human potential can guide projects, and the second part discussing how gaining wisdom through understanding contexts can help designers have a positive impact. It advocates taking a founder's mindset of defining problems rather than just inheriting them when developing new technologies.

1. JOD KAFTAN / CHRIS CHANDLER WORLD IA DAY 2/20/16
WHY THE IA’S JOURNEY MUST BE A HEROES JOURNEY
FEARLESS FUTURES
JOD KAFTAN I CHRIS CHANDLER
WORLD IA DAY 2/20/16

2. PART 1 PART 2
The Big Yes &
The Moral Hypothesis
Unleash Your Superhero:
Have Fun with the Flux
By Jod By Chris
CONTENTS

3. PART 1

4. BIG NO BIG SHRUG BIG YES

5. BIG NO
Life is in decline—a slow process of
purgatorial retrograde
SPENGLER

6. BIG SHRUG
The universe is simply a neverending
cycle of decline and ascent
ARISTOTLE

7. BACON
BIG YES
Humankind is progressive with an
onward and upward ascent

8. Goal: Make healthcare in America
a right and not a privilege
PART 1
I got on a project…

9. PART 1
How did that resistance impact my
work and view of life?
What was my resistence to
the project goal about…?

10. PART 1
If I believed that life should exist
and that people together could also build a
sustainable, brighter future…
How would that impact this project?

11. “If you really think things are
getting worse, you’re going to
grab everything you can while
you can, but if you think
things are getting better you
invest in the future.”
PART 1
—STEWART BRAND

12. In Design, We Need More
Than Simply a “Vision”
We Need a Moral
Imagination
PART 1

13. Design and Innovation are About 1) Making Something
From Emerging Truths and 2) Realizing Preferred Futures
PART 1

14. PART 1
BUSINESS
OUTCOME
CREATE
ASSUMPTIONS
PROBLEM
STATEMENT
HYPOTHESIS MAKE TEST
Insert Before and Long After….
MORAL
HYPOTHESIS
Vision Must Come From More Than Just
a Business Outcome, But From a Moral Hypothesis.

15. Think Like a Founder,
Not a Designer
PART 1
Designers Inherit
Problems, Founders
Define Them

16. Think Like a Founder,
Not a Designer
PART 1
Designers Inherit
Problems, Founders
Define Them
Design Of Business
Design For Business
Business Model Change
Innovation

17. "Get deeply, intensely curious about
what the world wants and needs. Ask
yourself what you have the potential to
offer that is so unique and compelling
and helpful that no computer could
replace you, no one could outsource
you, no one could steal your product
and make it better and then club you
into oblivion (not literally)."
PART 1
—JUSTINE MUSK

18. “There’s physical courage. For some
reason, I have physical courage. But
really if you think about it that’s nothing
compared to moral courage. If I don’t
have the moral courage to challenge
authority, to write about things that are
maybe going to have reprisals on my
career—If I don’t have that moral
courage we don’t have journalism.”
PART 1
—JAMES FOLEY

19. PART 2

24. DATA
INFORMATION
KNOWLEDGE
WISDOM
ENGINEER
ARCHITECT
DESIGNER
CHOREOGRAPHER

36. T H A N K
Y O U