A global movement. A shared ambition. A better society supported by AI.
AI will radically change our lives. We must be equally radical in deciding how.
Humanity faces a fundamental choice. Without enforceable safeguards and a new societal and economic architecture, autonomous intelligence could make society more productive while leaving people economically less secure, intellectually more dependent and progressively less free.
We can instead design a safer, freer and more prosperous society in which AI genuinely serves humanity.
Radical AI 2030 proposes ten interconnected principles and an independent European programme to investigate and help implement this alternative.
Protect humanity by 2027. Begin transforming society by 2030.
What if we do nothing?
AI agents and autonomous robots are becoming capable of carrying out a growing share of intellectual and physical work. This could disconnect productivity from employment and purchasing power, concentrate economic power and expose people to decisions or actions they cannot adequately challenge.
Young people face a particularly important question: will learning, creativity and ambition still lead to meaningful opportunities? These are serious risks, not inevitable predictions. The responsible choice is to investigate and prevent foreseeable harm before it becomes entrenched.
Economic security
Productivity could disconnect from employment and purchasing power.
Safety and human control
People could face decisions or actions they cannot adequately challenge.
The next generation
Will learning, creativity and ambition still lead to meaningful opportunities?
A radically better society is possible.
Imagine a society in which AI supports human safety and dignity, citizens participate in the value created by autonomous intelligence, expertise receives fair recognition and people gain genuine freedom to decide how much they work, learn, care, create and contribute.
Young people retain reasons to invest in their own capabilities. Government becomes more responsive and accountable. The ambition is not a society without work; it is a society with more meaningful human choice.
- Safety and dignity
- A share in the value created
- Fair recognition of expertise
- Freedom to choose
- Reasons to invest in capabilities
- Responsive, accountable government
The ten founding principles
- 01 Human primacy and non-harm by design
- 02 The social-AI contract
- 03 Binding ethical governance
- 04 AI accountability and liability
- 05 Universal access to intelligence
- 06 Human development and economic security beyond employment
- 07 Historical intellectual-property restitution
- 08 The paid-knowledge economy
- 09 Universal AI economic settlement
- 10 Collective citizen ownership, dividends and social financing
Ten essential building blocks. One integrated architecture. All ten dimensions must be addressed together. The proposed mechanisms must remain open to independent challenge, validation and improvement.
Two deadlines, one responsibility
2027
Protect humanity.
Develop and independently assess an AI Guardian framework combining protective AI analysis, technical safeguards, monitoring, auditability and meaningful human intervention. By 31 December 2027, target enforceable protections in selected participating European deployments. No system can guarantee zero harm.
2030
Begin transforming society.
Investigate and validate ways to share AI-generated prosperity, reward knowledge, finance social protection and transform public services. Begin implementing viable mechanisms where democratically authorised.
These are objectives, not achievements. Explore the programme
Independent minds. One shared mission.
60 independent participants
20 proposed European institutional specialists
Proposed, subject to approval. No members have been appointed.
Radical AI proposes a European Forum of 60 independent participants in social, economic, entrepreneurial, scientific, educational, legal and technological fields, complemented by 20 proposed European institutional specialists whose participation requires appropriate authorisation.
Its three councils are Social, Economic and Entrepreneurial. The Forum asks: What society do we want? How do we finance it? How do we make it work? The Forum must remain free to challenge the founder’s assumptions, reject weak mechanisms and publish independent evidence.
What society do we want?
How do we finance it?
How do we make it work?
The Radical AI 2030 movement
One shared ambition. Many ways to contribute.
Radical AI 2030 is a movement bringing together people and organisations who believe humanity should determine its future in the age of autonomous intelligence.
An independent non-profit organisation is being established to support the movement. The movement is designed to bring together ambassadors, sponsors, members and supporters, alongside a proposed independent multidisciplinary Forum.
Together, we aim to communicate the challenge, develop credible solutions and mobilise the people and institutions capable of making a better society possible.
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Radical AI 2030
The society we choose
- Non-profit organisation (being established)
- First circle: active ecosystem
- Second circle: community
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Third circle: society and institutions
- Citizens and society
- Companies, universities and civil-society organisations
- National governments
- European Union institutions
- United Nations
- World Trade Organization
- World Health Organization
- Other relevant international institutions
A responsibility I could no longer ignore.
After more than 30 years of entrepreneurship and 22 years working with AI, I believe the wider societal consequences deserve urgent, joined-up thinking. My work on governed AI adoption, enterprise systems and fairly compensated expertise led to a larger question: how should society itself evolve when intelligence becomes increasingly autonomous?
I wrote Radical AI 2030 — The society we choose, part of The 360° Society book series, to put forward a coherent proposal—not a finished doctrine. I would rather begin an honest debate with an imperfect solution than remain passive while society changes around us.
Hans Van Heghe, initiator of Radical AI 2030
Help shape the society we choose.
Radical AI 2030 is an invitation to protect humanity, take young people’s future seriously and investigate a new social and economic architecture. Support the mission—or help develop and challenge the proposed solutions.
Support the movement.
Add your name to a growing community calling for an independent, evidence-led response to autonomous intelligence. This does not mean endorsing every proposed economic mechanism, joining the Forum, becoming a member or subscribing to a newsletter.
Get involved.
One shared ambition. Many ways to contribute.
Become a member, an ambassador, a sponsor or a potential Forum member. Each pathway has its own description, expectations and next step.
Research partners, pilot partners and others who want to start a conversation can use the contribution page.