Explore Prompts

Recommend policies for households facing high living costs even when many people are employed. Distinguish immediate relief from measures that could improve long-term affordability, and compare options such as tax credits, wage policies, housing supply, childcare support, healthcare costs, and targeted public benefits. Explain how each option affects different income groups, work incentives, inflation, and public budgets. Identify the evidence policymakers should use to judge whether the support is reaching people who need it.

Assess how governments and platforms can reduce risks to young people on social media while respecting privacy, free expression, and families’ differing needs. Compare age-verification requirements, limits on persuasive design, safer default settings, parental controls, and platform accountability. For each approach, consider how it could work in practice, who might be excluded or exposed to new risks, and what evidence would show whether it is helping. Conclude with a balanced policy proposal.

Build a decision framework for managing public forests when proposals for logging and roadbuilding compete with habitat protection, recreation, wildfire resilience, carbon storage, and local economic needs. Explain how ecological conditions, community input, Indigenous rights, and long-term monitoring should shape decisions. Compare approaches such as limited development, restoration-focused forestry, and stronger access restrictions, then show how managers could evaluate trade-offs and revise plans when outcomes differ from expectations.

Design a governance model for an AI safety organization that must coordinate with government agencies and technology companies while retaining independence. Explain how it should handle funding, staffing, access to sensitive information, conflicts of interest, public reporting, and disagreements with the institutions it oversees. Compare several oversight structures, describe their trade-offs, and recommend safeguards that could make the organization both effective and credible.

Create a water-management strategy for a drought-prone river basin where intense storms can briefly refill reservoirs but also bring flood damage. Explain how managers should balance flood control, drinking water, agriculture, ecosystems, and downstream users when future flows are uncertain. Compare infrastructure, conservation, groundwater recharge, and allocation rules; identify who bears the costs and benefits; and propose indicators for adjusting the strategy as conditions change.

Develop a practical framework for planning a long-term human settlement on the Moon. Examine life support, radiation protection, energy, food and water supplies, medical care, maintenance, and the psychological effects of isolation and confinement. Explain which challenges could be addressed with local resources and which would still depend on Earth. Compare lessons from remote research stations and other isolated environments, and identify the most important design choices, risks, and unanswered questions.

Create a framework for making a region’s food system more resilient to climate stress, crop disease, and changing consumer preferences. Compare the roles of improved crop varieties, support for vulnerable fisheries, changes in public food procurement, and shifts toward lower-emissions diets. Recommend how policymakers and producers can evaluate environmental benefits alongside affordability, food culture, farmer livelihoods, and food security.

Explore how festivals, food markets, and community events help people maintain cultural ties across political or diplomatic divides. Compare the roles of organizers, local businesses, artists, and participants, and consider how these gatherings can foster belonging without claiming to resolve political disputes. Propose ways to make a cultural event welcoming, locally rooted, and respectful of the communities it represents.

Assess how labor disputes, skills shortages, and local workforce expectations can affect the timing and viability of large advanced-manufacturing projects. Create a practical plan for an employer and local government to identify workforce risks early, negotiate constructively, develop needed skills, and maintain community trust. How should decision-makers weigh labor costs against project delays, worker wellbeing, and long-term regional benefits?

Design a strategy for using public or blended finance to develop a country’s space sector. Identify which capabilities—such as research, launch services, satellites, or downstream data applications—may merit early support, and explain how to balance long-term research with commercial potential. Include milestones for evaluating progress, ways to attract private investment, and safeguards against costly projects with unclear public value.

Develop a framework for evaluating how technology suppliers can build resilience amid geopolitical tensions, changing trade policies, and dependence on cross-border partners. Compare strategies such as diversifying customers and suppliers, maintaining strategic inventories, and forming international partnerships. What trade-offs do these choices create for cost, speed, security, and trust?

Analyze how advanced packaging and specialized memory are changing competition in the semiconductor industry. Explain why these capabilities matter for AI systems, where bottlenecks can emerge across the supply chain, and how firms and governments might decide which parts of the ecosystem to invest in. Compare the opportunities and risks for a major chipmaking hub seeking to move into these adjacent fields.