Explore Prompts

Analyze the forces that can push an economy into low-growth mode even without an outright recession. Consider household purchasing power, corporate restructuring, state budgets, energy costs, consumer confidence, and financing conditions. Use the perspective of France or a similar advanced economy to explain how weak growth affects public services, industrial policy, and social cohesion, then outline policy choices that could improve resilience over a multi-year horizon.

Evaluate the prospects for replacing chemical pesticides with biological control methods such as sterile insects, natural predators, or other targeted interventions. Explain the scientific, logistical, regulatory, and economic barriers to scaling these approaches from pilot programs to national use. Then compare situations where biocontrol can realistically outperform pesticides with situations where integrated pest management is still necessary.

Analyze how repeated heatwaves change the design of public services and urban life. Discuss what should happen to school calendars, work schedules, rail operations, building standards, emergency planning, and access to cooling for vulnerable people. Compare short-term coping measures with long-term adaptation, and propose which policies are most equitable when extreme heat becomes a recurring constraint rather than an exceptional event.

Design a framework for how a government should evaluate AI systems for public administration or intelligence work. Address data sensitivity, vendor lock-in, auditability, legal jurisdiction, model performance, costs, and the difference between buying a product and building sovereign capability. Include criteria for when a state should prefer open-source, local vendors, or major global suppliers, and explain how to avoid replacing one dependency with another.

Examine how a robotics startup can compete with much larger foreign manufacturers in a market shaped by scale, supply chains, patents, manufacturing cost, and deployment speed. Compare strategies such as specializing in non-humanoid designs, targeting narrow use cases, partnering with local industries, and leveraging AI software rather than hardware scale alone. Finish by outlining the most plausible competitive advantages a European robotics ecosystem can build over time.

Analyze the idea of technological sovereignty for a mid-sized advanced economy. Explain the trade-offs between using global platforms and building domestic or European alternatives for AI, data analysis, cloud infrastructure, and robotics. Include policy tools, procurement strategies, talent development, security concerns, and the risk of isolation or duplication. Conclude with a realistic roadmap for how a government or public agency could increase resilience without sacrificing performance or interoperability.

Examine how cultural products and public rituals can trigger debates about authenticity, nationalism, commercialization, and social etiquette. Compare a festival turned tourism engine, a viral personal-professional trend, and a media controversy over perceived meaning or disrespect. Then explain how organizers or creators can design events and content that build broad appeal without provoking avoidable backlash.

Analyze how consumer behavior changes when a large market becomes more competitive and households grow more cautious. Explore why some domestic and foreign brands still succeed through pricing, localization, experience, identity, or trust. Then create a go-to-market strategy for a foreign consumer brand entering such a market, including what it should localize, what it should keep global, and what risks it must avoid.

Compare the challenges of deploying advanced technology in harsh, unpredictable environments such as autonomous driving, disaster forecasting, medical implants, marine robotics, and infrastructure monitoring. What makes a technology succeed in the lab but fail in the field? Use examples from at least three domains, then propose design principles for building systems that are robust, safe, and economically useful in real-world conditions.

Analyze how industrial policy can influence consumer-facing technology adoption, from AI assistants to smart devices and digital services. Identify the mechanisms that matter most—subsidies, procurement, standards, regulation, or ecosystem-building—and explain when they accelerate adoption versus when they distort competition. End by designing a policy mix that would increase consumer choice without fragmenting the market.

Examine how financing structures shape innovation in capital-intensive industries like AI, robotics, and advanced hardware. Discuss the role of venture capital, state-backed funding, public listings, and relaxed IPO rules in supporting unprofitable but strategic companies. Then outline a funding model for a frontier-tech startup that needs to survive long development cycles without losing strategic control.

Analyze how a country or company can build a competitive AI ecosystem when access to leading chips is constrained. Compare at least three strategies—domestic chip development, model optimization for local hardware, and partnerships or procurement at scale—and explain the trade-offs in performance, cost, speed, and strategic independence. Then propose a realistic roadmap for a mid-sized AI lab trying to stay competitive over the next five years.