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Rough concept idea for a board game: each player represents an AI lab and attempts to develop ASI. The actions involve raising money / hiring talent / building data centers, as well as interacting with other players in competitive manner. The idea lends itself well to the typical "snowball" style of board games (starting small, growing, later stages of the game actually concerning world events).

Game mechanics twist is that the game can only be won if the developed ASI is aligned, i.e. developing a misaligned ASI would lead to all players losing. Ideas how to achieve alignment would probably involve the need for cooperation among players (multi-lateral actions) as well as spending own resources.

If designed well, the game could be both fun and "educational".

This is roughly how the AI 2027 simulation works, btw! I wrote about my experience with it + what I learned here

Interesting! AI 2027 was likely one of the seeds of the idea (aside from actual world happenings and the discourse here).

I haven't looked into the methodology of AI 2027 in detail before, it makes sense it is a sort of wargame -- thanks for the link!

If designed well, the game could be both fun and "educational".

This is roughly how the AI 2027 simulation works, btw! I wrote about my experience with it + what I learned here

Interesting! AI 2027 was likely one of the seeds of the idea (aside from actual world happenings and the discourse here).

I haven't looked into the methodology of AI 2027 in detail before, it makes sense it is a sort of wargame -- thanks for the link!

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