Building Resilience for the Age of Intelligence

As intelligence is becoming increasingly abundant, it will reshape the world in many ways—among others, it will lay bare new vulnerabilities to the complex systems and processes that support modern human life, or exacerbate existing ones. What does it take for our civilization to be resilient in the age of intelligence? We’ll examine key “attack vectors” through which intelligent systems could introduce fragility, and consider what technological and institutional innovations–including AI-enabled ones–we need to differentially accelerate to ensure our ability to prevent, mitigate, learn from, and adapt to adverse events. Resilience does not only promise safety—it is a necessary ingredient for sustained, open-ended progress.