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ELIZA on Steroids
ELIZA on Steroids — Critical AI Analysis

Moskovitz

Clade X, May 2018: The Designer Becomes Player — and the Exercise Goes Live

·2075 words·10 mins
Corona Accountability Structural Analysis Pandemic Politics Clade X Tabletop Exercise Johns Hopkins Inglesby Daschle Gerberding Hamburg OToole Gorelick Open Philanthropy Moskovitz NTI Lab Leak Accountability
On 15 May 2018, in the conference hall of the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Washington, ten former or sitting US senior politicians and senior public-health officials gathered. 150 invited guests watched. A live stream ran simultaneously on Facebook. The exercise was called Clade X, lasted a single day and ended with a fictional outcome of 900 million dead worldwide over eighteen months. Convener: Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.