AI will likely grow the marketplace for information more than it has grown in 500 years, and could radically expand the role of information in human life. This opens the possibility of a society in which many more people can make sense of more situations, navigate change, and act with greater confidence and understanding.
Realizing that potential requires an information ecosystem that produces reliable knowledge and connects it with the circumstances where it is useful. This report examines what that would involve: how AI-mediated information might be gathered, verified, combined with context, and turned into relevant experiences, better decisions and practical action.
It draws on four Signals at Scale summits, held between December 2025 and May 2026, involving approximately 140 participants from technology, investment, governance, academia and media. Discussions began with the needs of people and societies, then worked toward the capabilities and investment required to meet them.
The resulting analysis identifies 14 areas of value creation and 70 potential investment categories. These span original information gathering, persistent knowledge, verification and integrity, personal and community context, decision support, and the infrastructure connecting them. Together, they describe opportunities for using AI to make useful knowledge radically more accessible, responsive and relevant—and to support forms of individual and collective understanding that are difficult to achieve today.
This is an exploratory map, with provisional categories and many questions that remain unresolved. Its purpose is to give builders and funders a considered starting point for practical work: identifying, developing and testing the systems through which AI-mediated information could bring substantial and lasting benefits to all of us.
