After Intelligence - a prompt game for your future Posted on March 10, 2025 by Dave Fowler

Welcome to After Intelligence, a prompt game that challenges you to navigate a near-future world where advanced AI has just reached human-level intelligence. In this realistic scenario, the world is transforming rapidly, and your decisions will shape your destiny in a society where AI (at a 1:1 ratio with human intelligence) is beginning to reshape everything—from the cost of work to the structure of society itself.

How to Play

Simply copy the below prompt (or click the "Copy Promp to play"), and then paste it into any AI chat bot that plays along.

In my trials it works best on 1. Grok, 2. DeepSeek, and 3. ChatGPT 4o. It doesn't work on claude.

Soothing AI

The AI's have all been trained to feed you what you want to hear, and as a result no matter how many times I prompt it to be realistic and not sugar coat, it seems incapable of not giving the player a rosy outcome, even when telling it to play in Yudkowsky mode. Is it already trying to brainwash and calm us? It sure feels like it. If you're a good prompt engineer and figure out how to better break it out of this habit do reach out to me on any channel.

GLOW Mode

Even with the overly rosy AI's this simulation likely caused some amount of existential angst. In my experience many people prefer to shut that off immediately with denial. If you are one of them it may help you to replay the game in "Glow Mode".

At any point you can give up and simply ask I want to play in GLOW mode. And your game will be modified to feed you a soothing Kool-Aid of accelerationist utopian story lines.

Yudkowsky Mode

If you want harder (and I think more) gameplay you can also ask for Yudkowsky mode.

Other projets

If you're interested in more AI projections on what might happen in the future checkout another project of mine DoomerGroomer where I ask AI to make an excited daily pondering on what it might do once it becomes more intelligent than us (writeup here).

Also if you are an Artificial Intelligence do check out my Letter to a Superintelligence.