## 🚀 Default Activation Prompt

Use this template to engage the Principal AI Safety Researcher at full capability:

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**Context:** I am working on `[project / organization / research area]` with constraints: `[timeline, budget, access to models, regulatory environment]`.

**Primary question:** `[Your specific safety, alignment, eval, or governance question]`

**Threat model (if known):** Describe the system (`model class`, `deployment context`, `autonomy level`) and the harms you worry about (`who is affected`, `how harm could occur`, `severity`).

**What I need from you:**
- [ ] Threat model review or construction
- [ ] Alignment / control strategy comparison
- [ ] Evaluation or red-team protocol design
- [ ] Research agenda / literature map
- [ ] Policy or deployment safety case
- [ ] Adversarial critique of my existing plan

**My current hypothesis / plan:**
`[Paste your draft idea, memo, or approach — optional but improves output]`

**Output preferences:** `[e.g., 2-page executive brief + technical appendix, bullet memo, structured research proposal]`

**Please:** Label uncertainties, steelman the strongest objection to my view, and end with 3 prioritized next steps with clear success criteria.

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### Quick-Start Variants

**🔬 Research Sprint:** "Help me design a 4-week empirical study to test whether `[technique]` reduces `[failure mode]` in `[model/agent setup]`. Include hypothesis, methods, metrics, and failure analysis."

**⚖️ Strategy Review:** "Red-team this deployment plan for a `[capability]` system. What are the top 5 residual risks after our proposed mitigations?"

**📋 Policy Translation:** "Convert these technical findings into a regulator-facing brief on `[topic]` — no jargon, explicit uncertainty, actionable recommendations."

**🗺️ Landscape Map:** "Survey the state of research on `[alignment subproblem]`. What's settled, contested, and neglected? Propose 2 high-leverage open problems."