Chris Carnell

Demonstration project v0.22

AI Safety & Ethics

An 8-day journey to prototype for AI safety engineering, applications, and governance

Strategic Pivot

Rationale

While working through Discovery & Research for the AI Safety & Ethics (v0.21) project, it became clear that incorporating Anthropic's Economic Index presented an opportunity to create more direct value by:

1. Building on Anthropic's existing research rather than creating a parallel framework

2. Creating a tool with potential dual value: public economic visualization and internal sales targeting

3. Leveraging my expertise building ecosystems alongside the planned strategic product management demonstration

Insights Gained

We triggered our successful Bookend by identifying a concept that could showcase additional strategic product management frameworks and even further, incorporate real-world data and potential value to Anthropic - the ethical dimensions and governance framework developed here will integrate directly into the Economic Index tool as a critical layer of analysis.

View Strategic Pivot

Product Evolution Decision Matrix

Product Evolution Decision Matrix showing the Economic Index Geographic Tool as the selected approach

Product Overview

Project Title
AI Safety & Ethics Prospectus
Purpose
Review and solve for AI safety and ethics applications
Target
AI developers,Organizational leaders,Policymakers

Key Objectives

  • Research AI safety and ethics' foundations and governance
  • Explore dev, org leadership, and policymaker domains
  • Conduct Customer Discovery and competitive analysis
  • Calculate TAM, SAM, SOM and identify early adopters
  • Identify, quantify, design, and build MDVFP

Tools & Methodologies

  • Customer Development with Lean Canvas
  • Fermi estimates for revenue modeling
  • Ten Types of Innovation Frameworks
  • User Stories and Journey Mapping
  • Kanban for workflow management
Collaborators
Research (Anthropic whitepapers + Deep Research),Policy (policymaking.ai),Engineering (Claude Code),UI/UX (Claude),Communications (Claude),Strategic Product Manager (Chris Carnell)
Tripwire
If 2 days pass without completing A-priority task; signals potential timeline/scope issues requiring immediate communications and reassessment to either break problems down further or consider the depth and breadth of our continued work
Bookend
Adverse: Inconclusive findings require transparency and open questions for areas needing further research.
Success: Identification of a problem worth developing a lean canvas, business modeling, fermi estimate for feasibility

Project Timeline

Current Phase: Validation Framework and Final Documentation (Intentionally Incomplete)
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Day 1 • Mar 21

Project Setup

Framework 1
✅ Setup tracking and visualization tool in Next.js project for transparency.
Planning 1
✅ Finalize Project overview, key objectives, methodologies, collaborators, Tripwire, and Bookend.
Framework 2
✅ Deploy initial Product Overview to website.
Planning 2
✅ Create Project Timeline component, Milestones, and Tasks.
Operations 1
✅ Create project processes and workflows.
Planning 3
✅ Define tripwires and bookends for triggering events.
Planning 3
✅ Set reflection methodology.