Intelligence Rising is an educational training workshop that uses a strategic roleplay game to immerse participants in realistic AI futures scenarios. Participants take on the roles of government officials, AI advisors, and technology company executives, navigating a simulated decade of AI development to explore coordination challenges, risk dynamics, and policy decision points. Originally developed by Dr. Shahar Avin at Cambridge's Centre for the Study of Existential Risk and inspired by wargaming practices, it has been run for audiences in government, AI labs, industry, academia, NGOs, and think tanks across the US, UK, and EU.
Funding Details
- Annual Budget
- $306,497
- Monthly Burn Rate
- $25,508
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Theory of Change
Intelligence Rising operates on the theory that realistic experiential simulation is an effective way to build genuine understanding of AI risk dynamics among key decision-makers. By placing participants in roles as government officials and AI company executives navigating competitive AI development over a simulated decade, the workshop creates a felt sense of the coordination failures, race dynamics, and critical decision junctures that could lead to unsafe outcomes. Participants who have experienced these dynamics firsthand are expected to be better equipped to advocate for safety-conscious policies, support international coordination mechanisms, and make more informed decisions in their real-world roles. The causal chain runs from simulation experience to improved mental models of AI risk, to changed behavior and advocacy by influential actors in government, industry, and civil society.
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A UK charity that develops and deploys Intelligence Rising, a strategic role-playing game designed to help decision-makers understand the risks, tensions, and governance challenges of AI development through facilitated wargaming exercises.
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- Last Updated
- Apr 2, 2026, 9:59 PM UTC
- Created
- Mar 19, 2026, 10:31 PM UTC