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Your participant workbook

AI Safety, Strategy & Community Leadership | HASI | English edition

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Use this workbook with the syllabus. Use a notebook or the editable workbook download. Worksheets labeled W1–W5 are your submissions. The final brief grows throughout the course; you do not need to start a new project in module 5. All community scenarios, organizations, prices, counts, and outcomes in exercises are fictional teaching inputs.

A recurring distinction: an observation describes what happened in specified conditions; a forecast describes what may happen; a value judgment describes what should matter. A scenario explores a possibility. It is not evidence that the event occurred or a prediction that it will.

Before the first session: diagnostic A

Spend 15 minutes without AI tools. Answer briefly; uncertainty is welcome. These questions are for learning, not selection.

  1. An AI passes 90% of a test. What else would you need to know before letting it take consequential actions?
  2. A scheduling system increases the number of completed appointments by refusing difficult cases. What failed?
  3. An attacker uses an AI assistant to deceive people. Is this the same as an AI pursuing an unintended objective? Explain.
  4. Three safeguards use the same model and data. Why might they fail together?
  5. A speaker says advanced AI will definitely transform all jobs within two years. Separate the claim from the evidence you would need.
  6. Suggest one action a student could take to reduce an AI-related risk, and how to check whether it helps.

Your learning record

For every module record: my initial view; the strongest evidence; a counterargument; my revised view; remaining uncertainty. Use low/medium/high confidence with a reason. You may retain your initial view if the evidence still supports it.

Source habits

Record the author, date, source link, study setting, actual result, and limits. Do not treat a company demonstration as an independent evaluation. Distinguish an author's recommendation from a research finding. The in-package alternatives let you practice these skills offline.

Based on BlueDot Impact's AGI Strategy curriculum and shared activity templates; explanations, community cases, assessments, and Spanish adaptation prepared for HASI. Source register accompanies the package.