Sapiens 5.0 : a manifesto for the development of human-AI collaboration

Humanity is currently pushed to its limits due to a significant number of converging physical, biological, psychological, cultural and socio-economic factors that form a complex and only partially understood network of risk. Whereas the search for the virtuous life, or Eudaemonia, already started with the classics, now, 2500 years later, humanity is placed in a position where answers to this question will be either enforced due to calamitous circumstance or constructively shaped through human ingenuity and will. In order to pursue the latter scenario, we propose that the decisive step is to declare homo sapiens itself as the main risk factor. Any step towards risk mitigation thus requires overcoming human fallibility which requires a deep understanding of the human condition in all its variability. Today we lack this understanding, let alone a well-defined view on the way forward. The Sapiens 5.0 (S5.0) manifesto proposes that we tackle this grand challenge by advancing interdisciplinary and future-focused solutions that integrate across science, humanities, governance, business, and society. At the heart of these solutions stand advanced and sustainable human-AI collaborations in the service of building a viable and dignified global society.