Will society respond to early AI accidents the way it should? Collect historical warning shots from other technologies and analyse which ones actually changed policy.
Many safety plans implicitly assume a visible incident will trigger action. History can test that assumption.
Output: A case-study comparison and short essay.
Write your question in one sentence.
Spend 30 minutes finding what has already been written about it.
Collect evidence in a simple table: claim, source, how strong.
Draft 1–2 pages: answer first, then reasons, then uncertainties.
Ask one person to poke holes in it, revise, and share.
All steps done
Share what you made, then try another project. The PDF version has room for notes.
Pick three lessons Zaidi and Dafoe draw from the failed attempt at international control of nuclear weapons. For each, argue whether it transfers to AI compute: chips are easier to track than ideas but harder than uranium.
Kulveit et al. argue AI could slowly erode human influence over the economy, culture and the state. Propose three measurable indicators for each domain using public data, and say which would warn us earliest.
Pick one case from the AI Incident Database and write it up like an accident investigator: what happened, who was harmed, why, and what rule or practice would have prevented it.
