22 pictures show what major UK cities will look like in the Year 3000 - according to AI

By Matthew Mohan-Hickson

Published 14th Jun 2024, 09:00 BST

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What will Britain look like in the Year 3,000? WIll our descendants, as the wise prophets Busted foretold, all be living under water.

Unfortunately unless advances in medical science develop at lightspeed pace, you, me and everyone reading this article will not live long enough to find out the answer to that. There is so much potential for major change in a thousand years, cast your mind back a millennium and the Normans were decades away from arriving on our shores.

Could future Britons be toiling under the yoke of alien invaders? If we managed to fast forward a thousand years would we find that climate change has completely upended life and the geography of the British Isles?

In an attempt to find the answers to such existential questions, I turned to the AI image generator NightCafe. See its predictions for cities such as London, Leeds, Edinburgh, Sheffield and more in our gallery below.

The prompts we set for the AI-tool were: what would the city look like in the year 3,000? And then in a second attempt: what would the city look like in a thousand years.

What Britain will look like in the Year 3,000 according to AI. Photo by NightCafe

1. Britain in Year 3000

What Britain will look like in the Year 3,000 according to AI. Photo by NightCafe | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe

This is what Blackpool and its famous seafront could look like in the Year 3,000. Good to know the Lights will still be going but that ominous dark cloud is a tad worrying.

2. Blackpool

This is what Blackpool and its famous seafront could look like in the Year 3,000. Good to know the Lights will still be going but that ominous dark cloud is a tad worrying. | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe

A bit of a different look at Blackpool of the future, as NightCafe suggested the city may have this grand gothic look in a thousand years.

3. Blackpool

A bit of a different look at Blackpool of the future, as NightCafe suggested the city may have this grand gothic look in a thousand years. | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe

Brighton could look quite unrecognisable in the Year 3000, if NightCafe's prediction for the south coast city is correct. But what a striking skyline!

4. Brighton

Brighton could look quite unrecognisable in the Year 3000, if NightCafe's prediction for the south coast city is correct. But what a striking skyline! | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe

When asked what Brighton would look like in a thousand years, NightCafe offered a bit of a different spin on the city. But the lighthouse-esque spire is very eye-catching.

5. Brighton

When asked what Brighton would look like in a thousand years, NightCafe offered a bit of a different spin on the city. But the lighthouse-esque spire is very eye-catching. | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe

Edinburgh of the Year 3000 could have quite the classic look, if this image generated by NightCafe proves to be correct. But at least Edinburgh Castle would appear to be still sanding strong

6. Edinburgh

Edinburgh of the Year 3000 could have quite the classic look, if this image generated by NightCafe proves to be correct. But at least Edinburgh Castle would appear to be still sanding strong | NightCafePhoto: NightCafe

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