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The think tank has a fish tank. The fish tank has the plan. The plan is going to save the world. The fish are just here for moral support.
Most think tanks have a projects page. Ours has a fish tank. You're on mobile so you'll just have to trust us on that one.
one emergency.
every tool
we have.
CrashLab models the collapse.
BigSim tests whether the fix works.
The Won't Get Fooled Again Act handles the financial wreckage.
The Cost of Waiting explains why we can't just wait and see.
The Convening gets the right people in the room before it's too late.
The Mission for America is what you deploy when you finally have the power to deploy it.
Every project on this page is a piece of the same plan.
The window is 2029.
We're building now.
The whole plan. 20+ chapters, every sector. What a WWII-scale mobilization actually looks like when someone finally writes it down. If you read one thing, make it this. It's long. Sorry.
read the plan →We model AI-driven unemployment until the economy breaks. Digitally. Then we figure out what stops it. Then we do it again. The goal is to break it on a screen before it breaks in real life.
explore CrashLab →The AI bubble is going to burst. When it does, Washington's instinct will be to write a very large check to the people who caused it. This is the law we're writing to make sure that doesn't happen again.
read the act →Every year we don't act costs trillions. We did the math. We wish we hadn't. Here it is anyway.
see the cost →An agent-based economic model so policymakers can test ideas before deploying them on actual humans. Somehow this doesn't exist yet. We're building it.
explore BigSim →Getting the people who'll actually have to govern through the AI crisis in a room to war-game it before it happens. Turns out you can prepare for things. Wild concept.
learn more →A WWII-scale mobilization to fix America's most pressing economic and environmental problems. Where it all began. We wrote it. They talked about it for years. Now we're writing the sequel.
Our original plan for converting failed banks to public banks. The Won't Get Fooled Again Act is the updated version. This is the director's cut.
How the Federal Financing Bank and a new National Reconstruction and Development Council can lead a peacetime mobilization to create an upgraded, sustainable economy.
Local news from almost every country in the world with local perspective. An early experiment in what we could build. The fish weren't involved in this one.