Here is more from the Wall Street Journal:
Inside a glass-encased building in downtown Washington, D.C., this past week, a group of experts hunkered down to strategize how to avoid the AI apocalypse that many doomsayers predict.
They were some 40 leading thinkers in economics, technology and public policy, and they had come to the Peterson Institute for International Economics to contemplate a vision of U.S. society in 2030. Provided with workbooks, easel pads and Sharpies, they arrived ready to game out responses to some of AI’s biggest risks—to jobs, the economy, political stability.
The event was arranged by Windfall Trust, a nonprofit devoted to heading off AI’s economic disruption by developing potential policy responses. It has been running scenario-planning exercises like this in cities around the world to catalyze proactive strategies for confronting an AI-driven future.
Over the years, think tanks have run numerous "war games" and crisis simulations on a variety of topics and scenarios. A number of think tanks even have programs dedicated to the topic, such as the Hoover Institution, which has a Wargaming and Crisis Simulation Initiative.