When Is It Worth Personally Preparing for AI Disasters? by Ben_Norman

Con­text: Some­one asked me “what can I do to pre­pare for sce­nar­ios where AI goes re­ally wrong?” This post de­scribes my best guess at an an­swer. Let me know if you have bet­ter ideas.SummaryPer­sonal prepa­ra­tion won’t help much for the most catas­trophic sce­nar­ios.It in­stead seems most use­ful in “messy mid­dle” sce­nar­ios: ones in which things go badly wrong, but cer­tain forms of prepa­ra­tion could still help a lot.Pri­ori­tise prepa­ra­tions that are cheap, broadly use­ful, and d...