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ELIZA on Steroids
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.

Dark Winter, June 2001: Those Who Rehearsed the Smallpox Built the Apparatus After

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Corona Accountability Structural Analysis Pandemic Politics Dark Winter Tabletop Exercise Bioterror Smallpox Johns Hopkins CSIS ANSER OToole Inglesby Hamburg Judith Miller Iraq War Project BioShield Accountability
From 22 to 23 June 2001 — three months before 9/11, five months before the anthrax letters — thirteen former senior US officials sat at an oval table in a briefing room at Andrews Air Force Base near Washington and played thirteen days of a smallpox outbreak in thirteen hours. The exercise was called Dark Winter.