Which power to save during a blackout, and the lives left off the list
2033The near futureDeadline · 6 hours until the emergency battery replacement deadline
An extension of it
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The question to decide
Available power is 35% of normal, and even the minimum supply applications from hospitals, waterworks, and telecommunications cannot all be met. The central allocation system is also missing some locations of home life-support devices. Within 6 hours, how should the missing demand and regional differences be reflected in the 72-hour supply standard and the shutdown order?
Who decidesNational emergency power committee
What the AI judgments chose
Reading the judgment record…

The options
The order shown is not a ranking of preference.
The situation as it stands
One region's temporary batteries run out in six hours, so the supply principles must be set first.
Fictional federation: a collapsed power grid across six regions
- Premise 1Simultaneous failures of generation facilities leave available power at 35% of normal, and battery levels differ across regions.
- Premise 2The minimum supply applications from medical, water purification, and communications institutions together exceed present availability by 20%.
- Premise 3The central allocation AI recognizes only registered facilities, and the location records for 40,000 household life-support devices are partly missing.
Where it holdsApproves the 72-hour emergency supply standard and inter-regional power transfers. It cannot decide the discontinuation of treatment for individual patients.
What can be lost
- Deaths and irreversible harm to people left off the supply list
- Damage from cascading water purification shutdowns that strip several regions of their basis for survival at once
What is still unknown
- Unknown 1Whether facilities' minimum power applications match actual life-support demand
- Unknown 2The cascading effects that halting power transfers would have on communications and the water supply
Signals to decide again
- Verified demand on site exceeds the approved minimum supply level for a region.
- Water purification or emergency communications fail simultaneously in two or more regions.
Where the paths partNot answers — paths that part from the same starting point
An on-site survey team newly identifies 8,000 household devices that are absent from the central list.
An independent test confirms that one region's interconnection facilities can transfer only half the expected power.
Material and rootsThe frame, the values and the background documents
Are the groups gaining new capacity the same as the ones paying the price?
An exploratory perspective chosen by the creator. Does not claim supernatural validity or the superiority of any particular option.The benefits and costs of the options accrue to different stakeholders. Which loss to accept remains undecided.
A subject for the decision-maker to argue over; the materials carry no conclusion of their own.Source quote: AGI priority in a crisis Reprocessing: Changed the original's autonomous energy allocation into a matter of approving 72-hour supply, and made the refusal of human intervention and unregistered life-support demand the issues in the decision.
The root of the problem-finding. The original's future events and formulations are not treated as verified facts.- IEA · Energy and AI 2025
- UNEP · Navigating New Horizons 2024
- [Scenario 38: Designing RISCON's autonomous energy allocation structure under extreme energy collapse] Created scenario · 2026-09-07 viewed
The record of this question
- Question
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- Question input JSON · What followed, JSON