Global Wellbeing Is at 31% and Falling.
LEWs Score: 326 / 1,050. Trend ↓ Explore the data
Join us in reversing this trend through AI-GCD — a new global democracy of, by, and for the people of the world, being developed to guide policy for the largest economic, social, and political transformation in human history.
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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 have made this feasible for the first time, including a universal wellbeing 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: a competitive network of AI-powered wellbeing management platforms (GoldBird), a global research and innovation network (EFRI-Net), and a constitutional democracy. That democracy is AI-GCD — and this is its home.
What AI-GCD Does About It
AI-GCD — the AI-Powered Global Constitutional Democracy — is the governance layer, guiding policy at every level, from your neighborhood to the world.
Scores every policy by its impact on human wellbeing
LEWs-based policy scoring at every level of government. No policy goes unscored.
Puts democratic governance offices at every level
Global → National → State → Congressional District → Metro/County → Branch. From your neighborhood to the world.
Governs the network, not just one platform
AI-GCD is a cross-platform governance authority — ensuring every participating platform meets standards for wellbeing and freedom.
Builds toward a Constitutional Convention
Founding Phase (now) → Critical Mass → elected delegates → permanent democratic governance. Being built right now by the people who show up.
Why This Is Urgent
The forces working against human freedom — whether through extractive economics, captured governance, algorithmic manipulation, or concentrated technological power — are identifiable not by ideology but by effect: wherever the freedom of many is constrained to benefit the few, these forces are at work. AI is making them exponentially more dangerous. Extraction is happening at unprecedented speed, governance is being captured through AI-powered disinformation, and technological advantage is concentrating in fewer and fewer hands.
And the governance structures that will shape AI policy for the century are being designed right now. The rules, the standards, and the institutions that will determine whether AI serves human freedom or constrains it are being built as you read this — and the forces constraining freedom are not waiting. If they shape the governance, they shape the century. The democratic institutions, the policy frameworks, the accountability structures — these do not build themselves.
This Is Where You Come In.
By signing the Declaration, you automatically become a founding member of all three networks — GoldBird, AI-GCD, and EFRI-Net. From there, you choose where to focus. Here’s how to get started.
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 participant in the AI-Powered Global Constitutional Democracy and all three networks. Signing is free, open to everyone worldwide, and is the single act that unlocks everything that follows.
Step 2. Find your opportunity.
Hundreds of opportunities across governance, economic development, research, and community building — at every level from local to global. Propose to serve in an AI-GCD Office. Launch a GoldBird Center. Join an EFRI-Net Hub. Build a product. Fund a venture. The opportunities dashboard helps you find what fits your skills, your jurisdiction, and your ambition.
Step 3. Apply.
Found an opportunity that calls to you? Apply. Propose to serve in governance leadership. Apply for a GoldBird Center directorship. Join a research team. Applications are reviewed by existing members — endorsements from the community strengthen your case.
Step 4. Start your journey.
As a founding participant, you have access to AI-GCD governance at every level — policy scoring, civic education, democratic participation, and the path to the Constitutional Convention. You also have access to GoldBird’s wellbeing management platform and the full network of opportunities across all three institutions. The people who show up first will shape what follows.
One Place to Start
Sign the Declaration, explore opportunities, and find 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.
From Founding to Constitution.
Phase 1: Founding
Sign the Declaration. Open offices. Establish services. Build the membership base. Demonstrate that AI-powered democratic governance works — at local, state, national, and global levels.
Phase 2: Critical Mass
Elect delegates from every jurisdiction. Build the governance infrastructure for a convention. Prove the model across enough jurisdictions that the convention carries democratic legitimacy.
Phase 3: Constitutional Convention
Draft and ratify a constitution for the AI-Powered Global Constitutional Democracy. Seat permanent elected governance. Transition from founding advisory structure to full democratic authority.
This is not a thought experiment. It is being built — right now — by the people who sign, serve, and participate. The founding window is open.
Get Started.
Be one of the founding participants who will build democratic governance from your neighborhood to the world. This moment will not repeat.
Launching with the Vanguard™ — the founding class of signers and volunteers building the AI-Powered Global Constitutional Democracy.
