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

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 0 of 3 done Shared. 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. Send your link to two people 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. Copy link Share image Download image X LinkedIn Bluesky WhatsApp Each button opens a draft with your link, and nothing is posted until you press Post. Download the image to add it. See the post text Skip for now Send your link to two people 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. Each button opens a draft with your link, and nothing is posted until you press Post. Download the image to add it. Get a check-in email each month In those trials, people who were prompted to check on a goal did better at reaching it. Where this comes from Email me a check-in each month Start Once a month, an email shows you the lines you've shared and asks if one has been crossed. You may also get one when something happens that may cross one of them. Your address is kept only for this and never shown, and every email has a link to stop. What's kept Skip for now Get a check-in email each month In those trials, people who were prompted to check on a goal did better at reaching it. Where this comes from Once a month, an email shows you the lines you've shared and asks if one has been crossed. You may also get one when something happens that may cross one of them. Your address is kept only for this and never shown, and every email has a link to stop. What's kept Tell someone who'll hold you to it 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. Their name Their email Open in Gmail Email app Copy email Opens a draft, sent only when you press Send. It includes every finished line, even private ones. See the email To: add their email above Skip for now Tell someone who'll hold you to it 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 press Send. It includes every finished line, even private ones. To: add their email above Save a private copy In those trials, keeping track helped about one and a half times as much when people kept a written record. Where this comes from Add why you care, and the excuse you'd be tempted to accept (not shared; your copy and your witness email include it) Why I care, and the excuse I'd be tempted to accept Save a printable copy Save as a text file Copy as text See what you'll save Skip for now Save a private copy In those trials, keeping track helped about one and a half times as much when people kept a written record. Where this comes from Set a date to review it The same review notes that people rarely check on a goal unless something prompts them. A date in your calendar is that prompt. Where this comes from Every year, on 4 November In a month On a date I choose Google Calendar Outlook Calendar file The reminder doesn't include your red lines, so keep your saved copy. Skip for now Set a date to review it The same review notes that people rarely check on a goal unless something prompts them. A date in your calendar is that prompt. Where this comes from The reminder doesn't include your red lines, so keep your saved copy. From a 2016 review of 138 trials with 19,951 people (Harkin and others, Psychological Bulletin). In each trial, some people were prompted to keep track of a goal and others weren't. On average, the people who were prompted did better at reaching it. Keeping track helped more when other people could see it (0.55) or when it was reported to someone (0.47) than when it stayed private (0.19). It helped more when people kept a written record (0.43) than when they didn't (0.29). The numbers are effect sizes: bigger means it helped more. Nearly all the trials were about health goals, like weight or blood pressure. Nobody has tested red lines for AI, so read this as a guide, not a promise. Writing a line down doesn't mean you'll keep it. These steps make it more likely. Read the review, or the free copy. Has it happened? Has a line been crossed? Things that have happened in AI, with their sources. If one crosses one of your red lines, say so here and see what you said you'd do. Your answers stay in your draft. Loading… Your address goes to Buttondown, the email service, not to this page's database. Every email has an unsubscribe link. Found in the news (only you see these) Suggested by the news finder. Nothing appears on the page until you add it. Add something that happened (only you see this) The wall Other people's red lines Loading the wall… Los Alamos 1944 The one who left Joseph Rotblat was a Polish physicist working in Liverpool when the war began. In 1944 he went to Los Alamos with the British team on the Manhattan Project. He had one reason for being there: the fear that Nazi Germany would build an atomic bomb first. By the end of 1944 it was clear Germany would not. The reason he had come no longer held, so he resigned and went back to Liverpool. He is the only scientist known to have left the project on grounds of conscience. Most of us never write down why we're somewhere. When things change slowly, nothing tells us to stop. Rotblat had that moment because he knew his reason. This page started as The Rotblat Line, to help you write down yours: the specific things that would make you act, and what you'd do, whether that's quitting, speaking up or finally getting involved. He was born on 4 November, so that's the day it suggests re-reading your red lines each year. 1908Born in Warsaw on 4 November 1944Joins Los Alamos, and leaves before the year is out 1957Co-founds the Pugwash Conferences 1995Shares the Nobel Peace Prize with Pugwash 2005Dies in London, aged 96