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ELIZA on Steroids — Critical AI Analysis

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

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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.

Atlantic Storm, January 2005: How a Smallpox Tabletop Became WHO Emergency Powers Four Months Later

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Corona Accountability Structural Analysis Pandemic Politics Atlantic Storm Tabletop Exercise Smallpox Bioterror WHO IHR Albright Kouchner Hoyer Buzek Brundtland Nunn NTI Johns Hopkins CSIS Accountability
On 14 January 2005, in a conference room in Washington, ten former or sitting heads of government from North America and Europe — together with a former WHO Director-General and an array of foreign-policy advisers — gathered around a table and played out a coordinated smallpox attack on six major cities simultaneously: Istanbul, Rotterdam, Warsaw, Frankfurt, New York City, Los Angeles. Within four and a half hours of exercise time the reported case count climbed from 51 to 3,320. The exercise was called Atlantic Storm.