This report describes a series of exercises run with the Business and Civil Society scenario on the Infinite Potential platform. In this scenario, players take on the role of business and civil society leaders and must confront multiple overlapping challenges from artificial intelligence (AI) and artificial general intelligence (AGI), including economic disruption, massive labor displacement, increased risk of cyberattacks, and potential loss of control from an AI system.
The Business and Civil Society scenario broadened the experiment’s participants beyond government officials, as had been the case in prior Infinite Potential scenarios. Rather than roleplaying U.S. National Security Council members, participants played themselves—chief executive officers, entrepreneurs, investors, technologists, philanthropists, academics, and civic leaders—so that insights would reveal how nonstate actors perceive responsibility and agency when fundamental systems begin to fail.
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