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Show HN: AI Red Lines – write down what would make you act on AI

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In short

The platform enables participants to specify trigger events alongside planned actions, such as resigning from a post or publicly speaking out. Users monitor current events against their chosen boundaries and can post their pledges directly to a public community wall. To reinforce these commitments, the site incorporates psychological interventions, including appointing accountability witnesses and scheduling reminders. Participants are also urged to review their recorded pledges annually on November 4, a date chosen to honor Manhattan Project dissenter Joseph Rotblat.

Key points

  • Setting concrete, written thresholds in advance helps individuals follow through on ethic…: Setting concrete, written thresholds in advance helps individuals follow through on ethical actions before circumstances escalate.
  • Public pledges and accountability partners significantly increase the likelihood that ind…: Public pledges and accountability partners significantly increase the likelihood that individuals stick to their stated boundaries.
  • Users can actively cross-reference current news reports against their documented conditio…: Users can actively cross-reference current news reports against their documented conditions to evaluate whether a red line has been crossed.

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What would your AI red lines be?

Decide now what would make you act on AI, and what you'd do. Then share it.

Hold to it

Make it stick

Writing a red line down is a start. These steps make it more likely you'll keep it. Do each one, or skip it, and the next one opens.

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In 138 trials, keeping track of a goal helped nearly three times as much when other people could see it. Where this comes from

Send it to two people, and ask them where their red lines are. Copying your link, opening a post or taking the image also puts your red lines on this page's wall.

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In those trials, people who were prompted to check on a goal did better at reaching it. Where this comes from

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In those trials, keeping track helped more than twice as much when people reported to someone else. Where this comes from

A witness: someone who'll ask you about it if one of your lines is crossed.

Opens a draft, sent only when you…

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