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(Updated) Safety Next Step: 20-Min “Nightmare Scenario Drill” (Built from our last threads)
Last posts I shared:
- Guardrails 101 (copy/paste checklist), and
- AI Safety for Non-Tech Builders (driver’s-ed framing)
Those sparked good questions — “Okay, but how do I actually think about risk like this?”
And in the comments, pushed the conversation into real, operational safety — ownership, kill-switch, reality checks — and added the “nightmare in one sentence” idea people really resonated with.
So I turned that into something you can actually run:
A 20-minute “nightmare scenario drill” for any AI feature — even if you’re not technical.
Before you start: 4 Guardian Questions
If you remember nothing else, remember these:
- What’s the worst-case?
- Who moves first?
- How do they stop it fast?
- How do we prevent the repeat?
Everything below is just a structured way to answer those.
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Quick definitions (so non-tech people stay with us):
- Threat model = simple version of → “What could go wrong, and who could get hurt?”
- Kill switch = → “How do we pause/disable this fast if it misbehaves?”
- Audit log = → “A record of what happened, so we can see when/where it went wrong.”
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You don’t need to be a security engineer to use these. You just need the right questions.
Step 1 — One-sentence nightmare ✅ (Kevin’s point)
Write this:
“If this goes wrong, the worst thing that could happen is…”
Examples:
- “Our AI chatbot leaks customer data in a reply.”
- “Our content tool generates harmful content with our brand on it.”
- “Our automation sends 500 wrong emails before anyone notices.”
If you can’t write this sentence, you’re not ready to ship.
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Step 2 — Owner + alert ✅ (Nick & Kevin)
Now add:
- Owner: “If this nightmare starts, who is responsible for acting?”(name + role, one person)
- Alert: “How do they find out?”(email, Slack, SMS…)
If everyone owns safety, no one owns safety.
Put one name on it.
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Step 3 — Kill switch in under 1 minute ✅ (Nick’s big theme)
Answer in plain language:
- “How do we pause or disable this feature in under 1 minute?”
- “Where is that button / toggle / config in real life?”
- “Who has permission to hit it?”
If the answer is “we’re not sure” → you don’t have a kill switch. You have a hope.
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Step 4 — Minimum logging
You don’t need a fancy dashboard to start. Decide:
- What do we log?(e.g. “who used it, when, what it did”)
- Where is that log?(tool / platform name)
- Who is supposed to look at it?(name, not “someone”)
A log nobody reads is just a diary.
Give it an owner.
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Step 5 — “Never again” line
After any weird behavior or close call, write one sentence:
“What did we change so this exact thing can’t happen twice?”
That’s how you turn “oops” into process instead of repeating the same mistake at scale.
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Why this matters
You don’t need to understand every deep technical detail of AI safety to be responsible.
If you:
- name the nightmare
- assign an owner
- know how to stop it
- and know where to look when it misbehaves
…you’re already far ahead of most people deploying AI into real workflows.
If you want help, comment with which bucket you’re in:
- “chatbot”
- “content tool”
- “automation”
and I can suggest:
- a one-sentence nightmare, and
- a simple kill-switch idea for your use case ✅
And credit where it’s due — this drill exists because people like Nick and Kevin took the time to push the conversation from “good intentions” to operational safety 🫰
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(Updated) Safety Next Step: 20-Min “Nightmare Scenario Drill” (Built from our last threads)
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