Societal Adaptation to Advanced AI
Jamie Bernardi, Gabriel Mukobi, Hilary Greaves, Lennart Heim, Markus, Anderljung

TL;DR
This paper advocates for societal adaptation strategies to mitigate risks from advanced AI, emphasizing resilience-building and adaptive interventions over traditional development-focused risk management.
Contribution
It introduces a conceptual framework for societal adaptation to advanced AI, including a three-step cycle to enhance resilience and practical recommendations for stakeholders.
Findings
Framework identifies adaptive interventions for AI risks
Examples include election manipulation and cyberterrorism
Societal resilience can be increased through a structured cycle
Abstract
Existing strategies for managing risks from advanced AI systems often focus on affecting what AI systems are developed and how they diffuse. However, this approach becomes less feasible as the number of developers of advanced AI grows, and impedes beneficial use-cases as well as harmful ones. In response, we urge a complementary approach: increasing societal adaptation to advanced AI, that is, reducing the expected negative impacts from a given level of diffusion of a given AI capability. We introduce a conceptual framework which helps identify adaptive interventions that avoid, defend against and remedy potentially harmful uses of AI systems, illustrated with examples in election manipulation, cyberterrorism, and loss of control to AI decision-makers. We discuss a three-step cycle that society can implement to adapt to AI. Increasing society's ability to implement this cycle builds its…
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Taxonomy
TopicsEthics and Social Impacts of AI
MethodsFocus · Diffusion
