AI Thought Experiments

Can you solve AI's hardest problems? Try adding guardrails. Watch them fail.

How this works:

  1. See what happens when AI goes wrong
  2. Add guardrails to prevent the problem
  3. Discover what still goes wrong despite your guardrails
  4. Learn why these problems are so hard to solve

The 4 Experiments:

  • The Paperclip Maximizer - Can you stop AI from destroying everything?
  • Self-Driving Car Dilemma - Program a car to make life-or-death choices
  • The Conscious AI - What if AI claims to suffer? Do you delete it?
  • The AI Box Experiment - Can you keep superintelligence contained?

Why these matter:

These aren't hypotheticals—they're real problems AI researchers, ethicists, and engineers face today. There are no easy answers. Try for yourself.

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