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Your personalised AI history advisor

Professional historians think this course is wrong

Opening Pandora’s box — fundamental debates in the study of history

The good news: it might be those guys who are wrong

History never repeats itself, but we can see patterns

History could help prevent war, save humanity, or tackle injustice

Not all history is equal(ly useful)

You can generate useful lines of enquiry

How to 10x your impact by choosing causes carefully

Identifying pressing problems and the best solutions to them

8 rules of thumb for useful historical study

Adding your own rules of thumb

But what if we can’t learn from history?

Summing up

Further exploration

Rutger Bregman talk and Q&A

Ysaline Bourgine de Meder talk and Q&A

Claude says hi!

The most important event in world history

Some events have MASSIVE consquences

Your ideas: the most important events in history

Identifying pivotal moments in our past

Judging Hobsbawm’s hypothesis

But could anyone have changed it?

Levers for change

History seems inevitable with hindsight, but wasn't at the time

Could we have prevented World War I?

Assassination: cause for optimism or pessimism?

YOU could be a key historical actor

Identifying pivotal moments in our present and future

Are we living in the most important century?

Shaping history at all is tough; actually shaping it for the better is even tougher

Altruistic missions in history: clear or clueless?

Summing up

Waqar Zaidi talk and Q&A

Joe Mansour talk and Q&A

Further exploration

Week 3 AI advisor context

Did one man stop World War 3 in 1983?

The lessons of history might save the world

Learning the lessons

Now that’s what I call changing the course of history

Good news and bad news on extinction risk

Learning from past technologies and key technologies’ pasts

How do we do it?

You don’t need to save the world to shape history for the better

Learning the lessons part 2

Two kinds of lasting legacy

Continuing a grand historical process

Learning from past revolutionaries

Summing up

Lara Thurnherr talk and Q&A

Billy Nicholles talk and Q&A

Further exploration

Week 4 AI advisor context

I regret following my passion, and you might too

The most obvious “why” question you’ve never asked

Hamming history

Hamming humanity’s highest hurdles

The world’s most pressing problems

What did you think?

Research with real results

Real results don’t come easily

Ambitious but realistic? Why I’m optimistic you can do it

The best learning is targeted learning

The best learning is targeted learning (Activity)

Narrowing down to a research question

Narrowing down to a research question (activity)

Using history outside of research

Summing up

Rose Hadshar talk and Q&A

Charlie Harrison talk and Q&A

Further exploration

Week 5 AI advisor context

Learning from history isn’t *really* your goal

Studying history might not be the best way to achieve your goals

Quick note for year 13s

Start STEM-y and broaden later

Start STEM-y and broaden later (Activity)

5 reasons you might have fixated prematurely on studying history

History doesn’t open many unique doors

There are other subjects that use similar skills to history

You might not need to give up humanities entirely

So how do I actually pick a subject?

Natasha's decision to not study History

Some careers might be far more impactful than others

How much more impactful? (Activity)

How much more impactful?

Career impact is the product of the 3 Ps

Career impact is the product of the 3 Ps (Activity)

Making watertight plans

Your next steps on the path to impact

Your priority area to look into

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Charlotte Darnell talk and Q&A

Further exploration