Tabletop exercises are informal meetings in which members of an emergency team discuss, usually with the help of a facilitator, their individual roles and appropriate responses during an emergency situation.[1][2][3][4]
Further reading
Blough, Ryan (2022) Wargaming AGI development, LessWrong, March 19.
Police Department (2012) What is a tabletop exercise?, University of Wisconsins-Madison, May 9.
External links
Intelligence Rising. A strategic role-playing game meant to explore possible AI futures.
Related entries
AI forecasting | biosecurity | forecasting | improving institutional decision-making | policy | red teaming
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Ackerman, Gary & Douglas Clifford (2021) Red teaming and crisis preparedness, in Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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Police Department (2012) What is a tabletop exercise?, University of Wisconsins-Madison, May 9.
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Johnson, Leighton (2020) Security Component Fundamentals for Assessment, 2nd ed., Amsterdam: Elsevier, p. 493.
Other names/scopes I considered include wargaming and scenario planning.
I think tabletop exercises is better than wargaming because I think they’re roughly synonymous but the latter has highly militaristic/adversarial framings, which seem important to avoid in some contexts, including with respect to some/many existential risks.
I think scenario planning is either a much larger category or just a distinct but related concept, so it seems best to have an entry/tag for tabletop exercises in particular. But perhaps we should also have one for scenario planning.
Maybe the name should be tabletop exercise, to be in accordance with standard naming conventions on the Forum?