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Playing with fire: AI games

4 September 2026|

Let’s play. Those words, delivered to a small group of like-minded people you trust, are the surest way I know of finding a creative solution to some problem. But the mood that makes play possible is fragile: one difficult person, one sharp comment, and it vanishes like a soap bubble and you will struggle to recover it. So when we set out to invite a room of 100 people to play, it was with some trepidation. These were highly successful, opinionated and argumentative people too. And the problem? How to draft a constitution to govern the development of AI, globally, for the foreseeable future. Amazingly, the game was a success. The constitution? Read on. The group entered a large ballroom, and we invited them

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