The Future of Life Institute’s AI Safety Index grades leading companies on public evidence. Apply its indicators to a company it does not cover, or re-score one with newer evidence.
Independent scorecards create reputational pressure. Extending them, transparently, is useful and teaches you what good practice looks like.
Output: A scorecard with sources for every grade.
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.
Butlin and Lappas set out principles for research objectives, procedures, knowledge sharing and public communication. Score three AI developers’ published policies against them, with Suleyman’s essay as a deliberately contrasting position.
Read two frontier AI companies’ published safety frameworks and compare them side by side using METR’s list of the elements these policies usually share.
At the 2024 AI Seoul Summit, frontier AI companies signed voluntary safety commitments, including publishing a safety framework. Pick five signatories and check what they actually published.
