Global Wellbeing Is at 31% and Falling.
LEWs Score: 326 / 1,050. Trend ↓ Explore the data
Join us in reversing this trend through the GoldBird Network — an AI-powered wellbeing management network leading the largest economic, social, and political transformation in human history.
Get Started8.2 Billion People Are in Harm’s Way.
Life expectancy is stalling or declining in many nations. Depression and anxiety are rising, especially among the young. Inequality is widening. Climate breakdown is accelerating. Armed conflicts are spreading. Misinformation and disinformation are ranked among the top global risks. Cybercrime is corrupting every aspect of human life, costing an estimated US$10.5 trillion annually — roughly 10% of global GDP. Trust in institutions is eroding.
And artificial intelligence — the most powerful technology ever created — while being used for extraordinary good by some, is being deployed by many others to surveil, control, and concentrate wealth.
If these trends are not reversed rapidly — within the next decade — catastrophic and compounding problems in climate, public health, economic instability, and political breakdown could lead to avoidable harm or mortality for billions of people. The stakes are existential, and the window for action is closing.
UN Secretary-General António Guterres — 2026 New Year’s Message:
“The world stands at a crossroads. Chaos and uncertainty surround us. Division. Violence. Climate breakdown. And systemic violations of international law.” — Guterres, January 2026
Top 10 Global Risks
World Economic Forum, 2026
Source: WEF Global Risks Report 2026
The Global Order Is Breaking Down.
“Multipolarity without effective multilateral institutions courts chaos — as Europe learned the hard way resulting in World War One. Eighty years on, we confront again the question our founders faced — only more urgent, more intertwined, more unforgiving.”
— António Guterres, UN Secretary-General, 80th General Assembly, September 2025
“The US-led post-1945 international order is now under destruction. The world has entered a period of wrecking-ball politics.”
— Munich Security Report 2026
“We are heading back to the law of the jungle — where the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must. This is the G-Zero world — an era when no one power or group of powers is both willing and able to drive a global agenda and maintain international order.”
— Ian Bremmer, President of Eurasia Group, 2025
“The last 20 years have been a dark period for global freedom. Just 21 percent of the world’s people now live in countries rated Free — down from 46 percent two decades ago.”
— Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2026
Freedom Is Declining Worldwide.
Freedom House has documented 20 consecutive years of global freedom decline. The number of countries rated “Not Free” is rising, while the global average freedom score has fallen every year since 2005. Without freedom, wellbeing cannot be optimized — and the forces constraining freedom are accelerating.
Global Freedom Index
Freedom House, Freedom in the World 2025 (data for 2024)
57.2/100
↓ 3.9 pts since 2012
20 Consecutive Years of Decline — Global Average Freedom Score
One Measure That Captures It All.
The Lifetime Expected Wellbeing measure (LEWs) integrates life expectancy, life satisfaction, and catastrophic risk into a single number. The global average today is 326 out of 1,050 — that is 31%. The global risks, institutional failures, and freedom decline described above are important societal factors driving this number down worldwide. Explore the scores by country and jurisdiction below.
LEWs Explorer
Goal: reach 75% of 1050 upper bound by 2050. Gap to target: 462 LEWs per person.
New GDP
$553T
Economic activity
New Capital
$553T
Wealth created
Two sides of one coin: new economic activity creates new wealth at ~1× revenue multiple.
$69,178 per person — 2.5% of adjusted total (8B people)
We believe the people of the world deserve better — and we believe better is possible.
We Have a Solution.
The AI-Powered Wellbeing Society Plan.
For the first time, a comprehensive plan combines wellbeing science, wellbeing economics, and AI to reverse these trends — at global scale, at speed, and with a viable economic model that creates extraordinary opportunity for those who participate in building it.
The plan’s goal is to move global wellbeing from 31% to 62% by 2050 — a gap that represents over US$500 trillion equivalent in new GDP and new capital, the single largest economic opportunity on the planet over the next 25 years. Recent breakthroughs across multiple scientific fields have made this feasible for the first time, including a universal measure (LEWs), a new economic methodology (Wellbeing Futures Investing), and AI that can operationalize wellbeing management at 50 to 1,000 times the speed of traditional approaches. The plan proposes three new global institutions to capture this opportunity: a constitutional democracy (AI-GCD), a research and innovation network (EFRI-Net), and a competitive network of AI-powered wellbeing management platforms.
Why This Is Urgent
The forces working against human freedom — whether through extractive economics, captured governance, algorithmic manipulation, or concentrated technological power — exist across every political spectrum. They are identifiable not by ideology but by effect: wherever the freedom of many is constrained to benefit the few, these forces are at work. Every person is inherently valuable, but not every use of power serves human flourishing — and it is the uses of power, not the people wielding it, that must be confronted.
AI is making these forces exponentially more dangerous. Extraction is happening at unprecedented speed, governance is being captured through AI-powered disinformation, trust is being destroyed through algorithm-driven media, and technological advantage is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands. These forces are combining four kinds of power simultaneously — economic, political, community, and innovation — and AI is amplifying each one.
At this moment, the forces constraining freedom are far more powerful than the forces seeking wellbeing for all. Every month that passes without a coordinated response, AI locks in more advantage for them. If these forces consolidate their use of AI before the forces of freedom can organize, the window for reversing the trend may close permanently — not just for this generation, but for generations to come.
Why We Have to Work Together
The same AI that makes the forces constraining human freedom so dangerous also makes a coordinated response possible. The science exists. The economics work. The technology is operational. The plan has been written. Three new institutions are launching. The forces of freedom can leverage the same four powers — economic, political, community, and innovation — in the service of wellbeing, not domination, with AI as the force multiplier that amplifies each one.
By working together, guided by the AI-Powered Wellbeing Society Plan, we have a chance to overcome the forces currently acting against an AI-powered future that delivers wellbeing for all.
But we have to move now.
This Is Where You Come In.
Getting from 31% to 62% requires early leaders who will step up across every dimension of the transformation — economic, political, community, and innovation — and move faster than the forces arrayed against us. It is likely to be the most exciting and rewarding opportunity you will encounter in your lifetime, and it involves four steps.
Step 1. Sign the Declaration of Wellbeing Independence.
The Declaration asserts two fundamental freedoms for every person: maximum freedom from domination and maximum freedom to flourish. By signing, you become a founding member of all three networks below. Signing is the single act that unlocks your participation in the largest economic, social, and political transformation in human history.
Step 2. Use GoldBird — to manage and increase the wellbeing and wealth of yourself and everyone you know.
GoldBird is the world’s first AI-powered wellbeing management platform. Measure your LEWs and improve it with personalized tools. Invest in wellbeing-aligned economic opportunities through Wellbeing Futures Investing and LEW-Backed Securities. Build products, services, and businesses at EFRI speed. Connect through GoldBird Centers in your community. Own what you create, control your own data, and participate in the largest economic transformation in human history.
Step 3. Build the AI-GCD — democratic governance that protects your wellbeing and your freedoms.
Become a founding member of the AI-Powered Global Constitutional Democracy — a new democratic institution of, by, and for the people. Launch or join an AI-GCD Center in your jurisdiction. Transform government from the inside with LEWs-based policy scoring. Run for governance leadership. Help shape the path to the Constitutional Convention.
Step 4. Participate in EFRI-Net — accelerating research and innovation at 10 to 1,000 times the speed of traditional work.
EFRI-Net connects researchers, innovators, entrepreneurs, accelerators, investors, universities, and standards bodies in a continuous cycle of compositional action research — researchers advancing the science on one side, practitioners building and testing on the other, both moving at AI-driven speed. Develop the open standards that new platforms and institutions will run on. Create and share innovations that generate new wealth faster than any centralized approach. GoldSage is your lifelong AI partner in this work.
Work fast, carve out your space, help yourself live your best life, and help others live theirs. The people who show up first will lead what follows.
One Place to Start
GoldBird walks you through each step — signing the Declaration, choosing your opportunities across all three networks, and finding where you fit. One registration, three networks, extraordinary opportunity.
Get StartedHundreds of Trillions of Dollars in New Opportunities.
Three institutions — each working across all four powers, each with a different emphasis — open what we believe to be the largest set of economic, civic, and innovation opportunities in human history. GoldBird emphasizes wellbeing management, the AI-GCD is a new global democratic government, and EFRI-Net emphasizes research-driven innovation — but all three operate across economic, political, community, and innovation domains.
Through GoldBird
Through the AI-GCD
Through EFRI-Net
Be first — in any of these areas. First-mover advantage in your jurisdiction, your industry, your domain. The opportunities are real, specific, and time-limited.
An intelligent planet is rising on the horizon — with trillions in new resources and a new world waiting to be explored. Every participant gets a castle, every castle connects to that world, and the world is being built now.
Explore Opportunities.
Be one of the founding members and partners who will build, lead, and share in the rewards of the AI-Powered Wellbeing Society. This moment will not repeat.
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