W13Course shell3 hours

Capstone & Synthesis

Final defense and the future of AI

Can you defend an ethical position under fire about systems that did not exist when the course began?

Students defend complete ethical audits, red-team one another's evidence, revisit their Week 1 narrative positions, and leave with a durable analytical practice rather than a frozen list of rules.

Join the live room

Before class

Submit the final audit, ethical matrix, pre-mortem, regulatory map, and one page on which claims could be wrong within twelve months.

After class

Keep the one-word Week 1 card. Write the missing Week 14 you think the next edition will need.

The promise

By the end of this room…

01Synthesize the course into a coherent analytical method.
02Defend claims with technical precision, normative clarity, and calibrated uncertainty.
03Red-team an audit across evidence, stakeholders, law, and remedy.
04Evaluate future scenarios against their assumptions and track record.

Why this week now

Signals, not scene-setting.

Forecasts should be scored against observed reality; vividness is not calibration.

Frontier-safety, present-harm, model-welfare, and accelerationist agendas now compete through institutions and budgets.

The most durable professional skill is knowing which facts could change and how the recommendation survives when they do.

Run of show

Provoke → frame → work → argue → synthesize.

Open student room ↗

0:00
provocation
Commit before the concepts
Which Week 1 narrative camp is closest to your view now?
Live activity · week 13 opening
0:15
frame
The audit defense standard
Forecasts should be scored against observed reality; vividness is not calibration.
0:45
discussion
Reading tension
Student leaders present the assigned readings as a clash of defensible positions, then moderate questions that expose the hidden assumptions.
1:10
frame
Forecasts as accountable arguments
Frontier-safety, present-harm, model-welfare, and accelerationist agendas now compete through institutions and budgets.
1:35
break
Break
Ten minutes. Leave the room's unresolved question visible.
1:45
forensics
Capstone red-team defenses
Role-based groups work the anchor case through technical, legal, stakeholder, and normative lenses.
Deliverable · A two-minute finding with evidence, uncertainty, and an actionable remedy.Live activity · week 13 forensics
2:25
controversy
Futures fishbowl: where is the field at mid-career?
Assigned positions, side-switch, and a joint recommendation that names the value or stakeholder it leaves exposed.
Live activity · week 13 controversy
2:50
synthesis
Re-vote and leave a trace
Repeat the opening vote, inspect what moved, and submit the strongest argument you still reject.
Live activity · week 13 exit