AI Ate the Future
Artificial Intelligence article share of pageviews across a fixed twenty-topic future watchlist. AI's share of this fixed future-topic attention basket rose from 28.4% in 2019 to 41.0% in 2025. It quantifies how one technology displaced other future-facing topics in public attention.
What does it show?
AI's share of this fixed future-topic attention basket rose from 28.4% in 2019 to 41.0% in 2025.
Methodology
Sum annual English Wikipedia user pageviews across the dashboard's source-controlled twenty-topic future watchlist and divide the Artificial intelligence article's views by that total. The list is fixed across all years, preventing hindsight additions, but it is an editorial basket rather than a taxonomy of every future-facing topic. Article popularity, naming, current events, and internal Wikipedia navigation all affect the result. What this isn't: That is dominance within an editorial watchlist, not all of Wikipedia.