World Collapse Expert (Ian Bremmer): The Real Crisis Is What Comes After Trump

1. Establish Global AI Governance

Implement a three-pronged AI governance approach: initiate AI arms control conversations between major powers, create an AI stability board to identify and address systemic threats from dangerous models, and fund global access to AI for all to prevent a ‘different species’ divide in humanity.

2. Fund AI Training for Job Transition

Implement pilot programs for reduced workweeks (e.g., four or three days) with full pay, dedicating the extra time to AI training. This prepares workers to be more effective in existing roles or transition to new ones, as AI proficiency will be crucial for future employment.

3. Ensure Equitable Technology Deployment

To prevent societal breakdown, ensure that new technologies are deployed in humane ways, with their benefits distributed broadly rather than captured by a small elite, to avoid widespread anger and potential mass action.

4. Cultivate Impulse Control in Leadership

Leaders, especially those in powerful positions, must develop strong impulse control and establish mechanisms to enforce it, such as avoiding constant media consumption and relying on recent information, to prevent erratic and potentially dangerous decisions.

5. Prioritize Country Over Leader Loyalty

Leaders should surround themselves with advisors who prioritize the country’s well-being and are willing to challenge incompetent decisions, rather than those solely loyal to the leader, to prevent skewed information and poor decision-making.

6. Adopt an All-for-All Energy Strategy

To ensure energy security and economic growth, countries should adopt a comprehensive ‘all-for-all’ approach to energy production, investing in a diverse portfolio including traditional sources, green technologies, and nuclear power, rather than limiting options based on political leanings.

7. Prioritize Domestic Investment and Competitiveness

A nation’s greatest threat often comes from within, through self-sabotage and a failure to invest in its own people, products, competitiveness, and overall attractiveness as a place to live, study, and work. Focus on internal strength.

8. Mobilize to Protect Jobs from AI

Workers can actively resist AI-driven job displacement through social mobilization and collective action, as demonstrated by longshoremen who successfully kept AI out of their sector, which can slow down the process of automation.

9. Embrace the Obligation of Independence

If you possess independence and cannot be easily fired, recognize this as a responsibility to speak out and engage in authentic conversations, even if it means facing disagreement, because many others lack this freedom.

10. Resist Algorithmic Programming

Actively resist the influence of algorithms, especially those that program human behavior on smartphones and digital platforms, by engaging in more real-world, long-form, and humane conversations to preserve authentic human interaction and avoid becoming ‘computer-like’.

11. Adapt Opinions to a Changing World

Recognize that holding static opinions in a constantly evolving world will inevitably lead to being wrong; continuously update and adapt your views as circumstances and information change.

12. Seek Impact Beyond Traditional Politics

Recognize that making a significant global difference is increasingly possible outside of established political institutions, through various opportunities created by changing power dynamics, including tech companies and independent voices.

13. Avoid Premature Political Predictions

Don’t engage in detailed political predictions or conversations about distant elections too early, as they are often meaningless and based on insufficient information. Focus on immediate political reactions and events.