Observed arrival · 2026-10-18
The AI Doomsday Scale
An interactive five-level field guide pairs possible AI futures with suggested survival kits.
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- Readers weighing practical risks of AI futures
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- Level 2 imagines API bills jumping 5–10× if inference is repriced, then recommends tracking AI unit costs.
Field notes
The five levels move from full alignment through an AI credit crunch, white-collar displacement and an “infocalypse” to Skynet. The recommended preparations change with the scenario: provider-agnostic model setups and runway at Level 2, income diversification at Level 3, then verification rules, hardware keys and offline reference material at Level 4. The page offers controls to build, share, copy, download or print a kit; the extract does not show what the builder produces.
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