INFORMS Open Forum

Or at least, that’s what it feels like sometimes!

Let’s have a little fun — if you HAD to choose, which AI-driven sci-fi world would you rather live in?
And more importantly: how would you use your real-world analytics skills to make a difference in that world?

Pick your world:

1. Star Trek – Collaborative, ethical AI in a utopian society.
2. The Matrix – Rebellious humans vs. dominant machine intelligence.
3. Her – Emotional AI companions and evolving relationships.
4. Wall-E – A lonely robot and a hopeful future with environmental themes.

💬 Comment below with your pick and your plan!
Would you optimize the rebellion? Forecast AI behavior? Build ethical models?

👉 Don’t see your favorite AI world listed? Drop it in the comments — we want to hear it!

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Garrett Johnston
Membership Engagement Coordinator
gjohnston@informs.org
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Dear Garrett, 

thank you so much for your fascinating initiative and food for thought!  

It seemed to me as if you had covered virtually all the possibilities with one fell swoop. Just like the fairy tale says "seven at a stroke," so here it is "four at a stroke."
So, please, my greatest admiration and respect for you!

What also came to mind is my book "Times and Lives," the completion of which has been postponed somewhat due to other commitments.

What I'm concerned with here, even in times of AI's seemingly unstoppable triumph, is the power of our ancient, refined, and even purified sciences, proven over millennia, without which AI would lack its strength, creative power, and sustainability: from the good old sciences (with a certain extra), mathematics, always with statistics, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, data, computer, and electrical sciences, neuroscience and cognitive sciences, medicine, environmental and spatial sciences, astronomy, including all their modern technologies, to cosmology and theology, not to mention literature and poetry, music and the performing arts, art and culture... all of these for everyone and with opportunities for participation for everyone, and also for "brain cinema" for and by everyone...

In this process of a holistic and sustainable, even eternal intelligence, and never without love, for and by so many participants, the OR-MS has a key significance that many are only just beginning to sense and feel.

With kind regards,

best wishes,

Willi (G.-W. Weber)

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Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber
Professor
Poznan University of Technology
Poznan
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