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July 8, 2026

Evidence index · Main forecast

Updated 2026-07-08. Headline regions are emergent from ai_futures_sim.


Emergent regions (seed sweep, 400 runs × 3 seeds)

RegionSeed 42Seed 123Seed 456Round headline
Doom17.8%17.3%14.3%~17%
Utopia11.3%15.0%12.0%~13%
Friction64.0%64.5%67.8%~65%
Severe7.0%3.3%6.0%~5%

Reproduce: ai-futures-simpython scripts/seed_sweep.py


Top terminals (n=600, seed=42)

TerminalShare
friction_modal~69%
friction_governance_paralysis~9%
utopia_golden_age~9%
severe_cyber_cascade~6%
doom_extinction_misalign~1.8%
doom_extinction_bio~0.8%

On full-spine paths, doom_whimper at horizon ≈ 15%.


Key event marginals (n=600, seed=42)

EventP
ev_no_pause_202888%
ev_us_paralysis_s256%
ev_bmia_pass41%
ev_china_cdz_mobilization65%

Source: outputs/runs/calibration_summary.json, path_frequency.json (generate via commands above).


Spine calibration targets

ConditionalTargetTypical emergent (n=600)
P(c5 | c2)~77%~77%
Full spine c1→c9~89%