Axios AI+

Look ahead: Our annual AI+ Summits are coming to not one, not two, but three locations this year. We’ll be in New York on June 4, D.C. on Sept. 16, and will round out the year in San Francisco on Dec. 4.

A project that’s spent six years simulating scenarios of AI’s future validates growing alarm among many observers that runaway competition will drive reckless adoption of unsafe technologies.

• These simulations aren’t running on some massive supercomputer in the cloud — they’re powered by people sitting around a table scattered with cards and dice.

Why it matters: Even some of those who believe powerful AI can be developed safely are worried that viewing the technology’s development as a race will push AI makers toward dangerous choices.

State of play: Since 2019, a group of academics has been developing and refining Intelligence Rising, an interactive game that aims to simulate the development of advanced AI, with individual players taking on the roles of government leaders and company executives.