A horizon for the choices we make now.
What Future Should
Our Children Inherit?
The door is openBefore technology decides what is possible, humanity should decide what is worth building.
2030 is a date. The future is a choice.
The door is openThe decisions we make now will shape the world they grow up in.
- AI is changing how we learn.
- Automation is changing how we work.
- Algorithms are changing how we experience the world.
2030 is not a prediction or a deadline for catastrophe. It is a horizon. A moment close enough to see — and far enough away to change.
Open Doors believes humanity should enter the next decade having clearly stated the principles we expect technology to serve.
DreamsbeforeTechnology.
We are not asking humanity to stop the future.
We are asking humanity to choose it.
The 10 Laws of Victory
Our proposed starting point for a human covenant with technology.
Family
All People Deserve Real Human Connection
Love, wisdom and belonging should pass from one generation to the next — never be interrupted by technology.
Technology should strengthen the relationships through which love, wisdom, identity and belonging pass from one generation to the next. It should create more presence, not less, and more opportunity for people to be truly present with those they love.
Champions
All People Deserve to Be Believed In
Every person should be believed in and supported to become who they can be.
Every person deserves to be seen, encouraged and supported. Technology should help people find and become champions for one another, lifting the human spirit rather than diminishing it.
Nutrition
All People Deserve Quality Nourishment for Life
Progress should nourish human life in every dimension.
Progress should support the physical, mental and informational conditions human beings need to flourish. Technology should expand access to quality nourishment, not compete with the conditions that sustain life.
Shelter
All People Deserve a Safe Place to Exist
Everyone deserves a safe, dignified place to exist.
Technological and economic progress should expand access to safe, dignified and stable places to live. No advancement should leave people less sheltered, less secure, or less able to exist in peace.
Care
All People Deserve Health in Every Dimension
Technology should protect health of body, mind and spirit.
Technology should respect and support human physical, emotional, psychological and social wellbeing. Progress that harms human health in any dimension is not progress.
Knowledge
All People Deserve the Wisdom to Move Forward
Wisdom should become more accessible, and respected where it comes from.
Human knowledge and wisdom should become increasingly accessible while respecting the people and communities that create and preserve it. Technology should illuminate, not replace, the human capacity for understanding.
Resources
All People Deserve the Tools to Utilize Their Potential
People should have the tools to use their full potential.
Technology should expand people’s ability to access the tools and resources necessary to participate meaningfully in society and to realize the potential within them.
Education
All People Deserve the Ability to Learn and Become
People should become more capable — not more dependent.
Technology should make human beings more capable, curious and empowered — not unnecessarily dependent. Education should expand a person’s ability to learn and to become.
Opportunities
All People Deserve a Future That Belongs to Them
When old paths close, new ones should open.
When technology changes or removes human pathways, progress should create new opportunities for people to participate, contribute and thrive. No one’s future should be made to belong to someone else.
Freedom
All People Deserve to Be Known as Who They Really Are
Every person should be free to be known as who they really are.
Every person should retain the freedom to imagine, choose and pursue a meaningful future, and to be known as who they really are — not reduced, ranked, or defined by a system.
These 10 Laws form a covenant between technology and humanity.
Technology is increasingly powerful enough to influence how people connect, learn, work, live and understand themselves.
With that power comes responsibility.
The question is not only whether technology works.
The question is whether humanity wins with it.
A true victory is a victory shared by all.
Human common ground
Under every language, nationality and ideology is a question parents have always understood:
What do you want for your child?
A safe life.
A meaningful life.
A life with possibility.
One question. Ten laws. One open door.
Add your name.
Stand behind the 10 Laws of Victory and the belief that humanity must remain responsible for the future technology helps create.
The Open Doors Petition
To the leaders building, deploying and governing artificial intelligence:
We believe humanity should remain the author of its own future.
Artificial intelligence may become one of the most powerful tools humanity has ever created. We welcome its potential. But technological capability alone should not determine the world our children inherit.
We ask the leaders shaping this future to embrace a simple principle:
Dreams before technology.
Before asking only what technology can do, ask what future humanity wants it to help create.
We ask technology companies, AI developers, policymakers, educators and institutions to build and govern technology in alignment with the 10 Laws of Victory.
Technology should strengthen humanity. Children should inherit more possibility — not less. Human beings should remain active participants in determining their own future.
Humanity must inherit its own future.
A true victory is a victory shared by all.
The door is open.