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FICTIONAL PLANNING REGISTER

World-event scenarios, 2027–2036

Explore 3,000 annualized scenario rows from the supplied workbook. Every row is fictional, every numerical estimate is source-authored and non-calibrated, and every consequence path is illustrative rather than predictive.

FICTIONAL SCENARIO — NOT HISTORICAL, NOT A FORECAST The provenance of this block requires editorial review.
Confidence
Source-bounded scenario register
Sources
1
Independent corroboration
0
Date range
2027–2036
Review
Exact workbook bytes preserved; scenario assumptions, baselines, and estimates require claim-specific review
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FICTIONAL SCENARIO — NOT HISTORICAL, NOT A FORECAST. Probability fields are source-authored analytical estimates, not calibrated forecasts and not additive. Consequence scores are comparison aids, not expected casualties, financial losses, or site rankings. Coordinates are broad centroids, not target locations.

Scenario rows
3,000
Scenario tracks
300
Years
2027–2036
Rows per year
300
Baseline source URLs
19

FICTIONAL SCENARIO — NOT HISTORICAL, NOT A FORECAST

2036-S117Track W003Q1 2036

Iran nuclear threshold or safeguards crisis — 2036 outlook

Nuclear proliferation / safeguards crisis · Tehran and Persian Gulf region

Nuclear / WMD · Moderate 17.1% source estimate · magnitude 5/5 · priority 5/5

FICTIONAL SCENARIO — NOT HISTORICAL, NOT A FORECAST

2036-S279Track CH007Q2–Q3 2036

Large earthquake strikes a major urban fault zone — 2036 outlook

Earthquake / urban catastrophe · Istanbul or a comparable high-exposure metropolitan fault zone

Climate / health · Low 8.3% source estimate · magnitude 5/5 · priority 3/5
FICTIONAL SCENARIO — NOT HISTORICAL, NOT A FORECAST The provenance of this block requires editorial review.
Confidence
Moderate
Sources
1
Independent corroboration
0
Date range
Q2 2036
Review
Scenario premise, probability, and consequences require claim-specific review

FICTIONAL SCENARIO — NOT HISTORICAL, NOT A FORECAST

SOURCE ROW 2759 · TRACK TS001

Frontier AI system causes a cross-sector information-security incident — 2036 outlook

In 2036, the modeled trigger or precursor is: a highly capable model is misused or behaves unexpectedly at scale, producing coordinated fraud, unsafe automation or widespread compromise of information integrity. The incident reveals that deployment controls, monitoring and organizational oversight did not keep pace with capability. Because the model is embedded across many services, uncertainty about affected systems becomes as disruptive as confirmed damage. By the mid-2030s, highly capable autonomous systems and strategic space infrastructure could create new single points of failure and coercive leverage. The annual probability is an approximate analytical estimate of 27.3% (Moderate), with consequence magnitude 5/5. This row is a plausible, overlapping scenario—not a prediction.

Stable scenario ID
2036-S058
Track ID
TS001
Illustrative window
Q2 2036
Category
Technology / space
Impact scope
Global
Outcome direction
Adverse
Broad geography
Major AI development, cloud and regulatory hubs · Global
Coordinate precision
Representative technology-hub centroid; not a facility coordinate
Confidence label
Moderate
Operational use
Not allowed by this educational transformation

SOURCE-AUTHORED ANALYTICAL ESTIMATE — NOT CALIBRATED OR ADDITIVE

Annual estimate
27.3%
Band
Moderate
Magnitude
5/5
Weighted score
27.3/100
Planning priority
5/5

Workbook formula: probability ÷ 100 × magnitude × 20. It is a comparison aid only. Scenario probabilities overlap and must not be summed.

Scenario premise

a highly capable model is misused or behaves unexpectedly at scale, producing coordinated fraud, unsafe automation or widespread compromise of information integrity.

Named actor classes

frontier-model developers; cloud providers; regulators; enterprises; security researchers; affected users

Warning indicators

rapid capability gains without matching evaluations; unexplained autonomous actions; repeated near misses; weak identity controls; large-scale abuse reports

Indicators are planning prompts, not proof that the scenario is occurring and not a monitoring or targeting instruction.

Key uncertainties

the actual causal role of the model, effectiveness of shutdown mechanisms and whether regulation can reduce risk without freezing beneficial use

ILLUSTRATIVE CONSEQUENCE PATH — NOT A PREDICTION

Conditional consequence sequence

  1. 0–30 days

    If this scenario occurs in 2036: Providers restrict access, suspend selected features and investigate logs while governments issue emergency guidance. Firms disconnect automated workflows and require human review.

  2. 1–3 years

    During 2037–2039: Licensing, incident reporting, evaluations and liability standards tighten. Compute access and model distribution become more politically contested.

  3. 4–10 years

    Across 2040–2046: AI deployment becomes more auditable and sector-specific, but development may concentrate among firms able to meet compliance costs. International competition over safety standards intensifies.

Baseline source — not endorsement of this scenario or estimate

OECD AI Policy Observatory; used for AI incidents, governance and frontier-model risk framing.

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BASELINE START POINT ONLY

Track evidence review remains open

Review ID
SER-TS001
Review state
READY FOR CLAIM-SPECIFIC REVIEW
Premise verification
NOT REVIEWED
Probability calibration
NOT PERFORMED
Independent origins
0
Assignment state
OPEN_UNASSIGNED

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ASSUMPTION IS NOT FACT

Track assumptions and retirement remain open

Assumption ID
SAR-TS001
Premise review
NOT REVIEWED
Indicator review
NOT REVIEWED
Retirement state
NOT EVALUATED

The sidecar exposes dependencies, disconfirming questions, alternative explanations, false-alarm risks, consequence interruptions, and retirement triggers. It does not predict, monitor, or retire this track.

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Safety and use boundary

Strategic technology and space-governance scenario only. It omits exploit methods, model-evasion techniques, satellite targeting data and other operational details that could facilitate harm. This site adds no tactical target data, exploit steps, evasion methods, weapon construction, casualty optimization, or authorization for real-world action.

SOURCE-AUTHORED ANALYTICAL ESTIMATE — NOT CALIBRATED OR ADDITIVE

Ten-year track: TS001

The workbook annualizes the same scenario family once per year so readers can compare how its assumptions and numerical estimates change. This is not a time-series forecast.

Source-authored annualized rows for track TS001
YearScenario IDProbabilityBandMagnitudeWeighted scorePriorityConfidence
2027 2027-S091 17.0% Moderate 5/5 17.0 5/5 Moderate
2028 2028-S076 19.8% Moderate 5/5 19.8 5/5 Moderate
2029 2029-S086 18.7% Moderate 5/5 18.7 5/5 Moderate
2030 2030-S079 20.3% Moderate 5/5 20.3 5/5 Moderate
2031 2031-S061 22.8% Moderate 5/5 22.8 5/5 Moderate
2032 2032-S067 23.4% Moderate 5/5 23.4 5/5 Moderate
2033 2033-S065 23.8% Moderate 5/5 23.8 5/5 Moderate
2034 2034-S060 25.1% Moderate 5/5 25.1 5/5 Moderate
2035 2035-S057 26.9% Moderate 5/5 26.9 5/5 Moderate
2036 2036-S058 27.3% Moderate 5/5 27.3 5/5 Moderate

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