Newshot What would your AI red lines be?
Decide now what would make you act on AI, and what you'd do. Then share it.
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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.
- 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. 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 textYour post will appear here once you've finished a line that isn't private.
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.
Your post will appear here once you've finished a line that isn't private.
- In those trials, people who were prompted to check on a goal did better at reaching it. Where this comes from
- 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 Finish a line first: write what would make you act, and what you would do. Opens a draft, sent only when you press Send. It includes every finished line, even private ones. See the emailTo: add their email above
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.
Finish a line first: write what would make you act, and what you would do.
Opens a draft, sent only when you press Send. It includes every finished line, even private ones.
To: add their email above
- In those trials, keeping track helped about one and a half times as much when people kept a written record. Where this comes from Finish a line first: write what would make you act, and what you would do. 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 See what you'll saveMy AI red linesDrawn 12 November 2026 · re-read every 4 NovemberMy red linesYour red lines will appear here as you write them.Signed
In those trials, keeping track helped about one and a half times as much when people kept a written record. Where this comes from
Finish a line first: write what would make you act, and what you would do.
Your red lines will appear here as you write them.
- 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 Next: Thursday, 4 November 2027, then every year. Google Calendar Outlook In Outlook, choose Repeat, then Yearly, before you save it. The reminder doesn't include your red lines, so keep your saved copy.
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
Next: Thursday, 4 November 2027, then every year.
In Outlook, choose Repeat, then Yearly, before you save it. The reminder doesn't include your red lines, so keep your saved copy.
3 steps left. Open one to do it.
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.
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- IFMy employer deploys a model that its own safety evaluations flagged as dangerous.THENI will quit my job.
Los Alamos1944
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