# Strategic awareness tools: design sketches

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We’ve recently published a set of design sketches for tools for strategic awareness.

We think that near-term AI could help a wide variety of actors to have a more grounded and accurate perspective on their situation, and that this could be quite important:

*   Tools for strategic awareness could make individuals more epistemically empowered and better able to make decisions in their own best interests.
*   Better strategic awareness could help humanity to handle some of the [big challenges](https://www.forethought.org/research/preparing-for-the-intelligence-explosion) that are heading towards us as we transition to more advanced AI systems.

We’re excited for people to build tools that help this happen, and hope that our design sketches will make this area more concrete, and inspire people to get started. 

The (overly-)specific technologies we sketch out are:

*   [**Ambient superforecasting**](https://www.forethought.org/research/design-sketches-tools-for-strategic-awareness#ambient-superforecasting) — When people want to know something about the future, they can run a query like a Google search, and get back a superforecaster-level assessment of likelihoods.
*   [**Scenario planning on tap**](https://www.forethought.org/research/design-sketches-tools-for-strategic-awareness#scenario-planning-on-tap) — People can easily explore the likely implications of possible courses of actions, summoning up coherent grounded narratives about possible futures, and diving seamlessly into analysis of the implications of different hypotheticals.
*   [**Automated OSINT**](https://www.forethought.org/research/design-sketches-tools-for-strategic-awareness#automated-osint)**—** Everyone has instant access to professional-grade political analysis; when someone does something self-serving, this will be transparent.

![Hand-drawn concept board titled “Tools for strategic awareness” showing mockups for ambient superforecasting, scenario planning on tap, and automated OSINT, illustrating AI tools for forecasting, scenario analysis, and better strategic decisions.](https://39669.cdn.cke-cs.com/rQvD3VnunXZu34m86e5f/images/7fc39c03b9d2b34a054c737dcf66ae940b7f7ee160892cb9.png)

If you have ideas for how to implement these technologies, issues we may not have spotted, or visions for other tools in this space, we’d love to hear them. 

*This article was created by* [*Forethought*](https://www.forethought.org/about)*. Read the full article on* [*our website*](https://www.forethought.org/research/design-sketches-tools-for-strategic-awareness)*.*

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