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Learning and research tools

If curiosity and creativity are key in the future of education at every age, incentives to explore content that can make learning engaging with tools like stories and visuals seem like perfect anchors for establishing an open university-like system.Bentley Moon

Find educational resources, explore scientific models and practise evaluating evidence. Learning routes provide a sequence of sources and practical tasks.

Also: compendiums of outside resources by subject, experiments from across the family, where Kosplora is going, how an AI study guide should behave, digital agency and credential research.

From the Futurism Institute and Values Commons.

What do you want to learn?

Kosplora is being built as an open university: anything, from any source, arranged around what you bring, ending in work someone else can check. Answer three questions and the map below re-arranges around you.

What you bring

Where you learn

What you leave with

  1. Understanding Notes and sources you keep
  2. Work you made A route ends in it
  3. Checked against a published standard Named on some routes
  4. Recognised by a partner Not built

Start here

  1. How fast is the computing power used to train frontier AI growing? a route of 7 stops, 3h 20m alone, checked against a published standard
  2. Where should someone new to AI safety start? a route of 6 stops, 5h 15m alone
  3. The resource library 700 courses, books and references, by subject

Suggestions follow fixed rules: each item lists the times, ways and aims it suits, and the three with the most matches come first. No AI is involved, and nothing you choose is stored or sent. A guide that adapts as you go is not built; how an AI study guide should behave is written down first.

Tool directory

24 tools and resources

  • Learning resource library

    Library · Kosplora

    Search educational resources by topic and recorded cost, with sources and full records from Values Commons.

  • Scientific simulations

    Simulations · Kosplora

    Change a model and observe patterns in mathematics, physics and living systems.

  • Synchrony model

    Experiment · Kosplora

    Predict how separate rhythms behave, then change the coupling and watch what happens.

  • Socratic Hearth

    Writing tool · Socratic Hearth

    Set out what you think, what supports it and what would change your mind.

  • Group agreement record

    Planning tool · The Work Party

    Write down what was agreed, who will do it and when it is due.

  • Resource comparisons

    Comparison tool · Values Commons

    Inspect the sources behind a comparison and change the weights given to its standards.

  • Digital-agency guide

    Guide · Kosplora

    Work through checking claims, verifying requests, assistant permissions and account recovery.

  • AI-safety guide

    Guide · Legible AI

    Follow an introduction to the field, its arguments, courses and open questions.

  • Rebuild Epoch AI's published growth rate for frontier training compute from its own data, in a spreadsheet, and compare your figures with the published ones.

  • Write a harmless test set for each prompt-injection scenario in OWASP's 2025 entry, label each direct or indirect, and compare your labels with another person's.

  • Refit the delay law from a published grokking release, from its own table of training runs, in a spreadsheet, and compare your exponents with the published ones.

  • Write a small evaluation in the UK AI Security Institute's Inspect framework, run it on a model on your own computer, score it against BetterBench's criteria, and have another person rerun it.

  • Compare one company's published safety policy with METR's list of shared elements, grade it on a published rubric, and set your grades beside an independent study's and another person's.

  • Read one path from a published neuroscience roadmap for AI safety, set it against a well-known counterpoint, and turn it into a claim an experiment could test.

  • Set two published studies of whether language models make biological misuse easier against a reporting standard for trials, and judge what each design could and could not detect.

  • Score forecasts about AI

    Learning route · Kosplora

    Read how superforecasters and experts forecast AI risk, check how their near-term forecasts turned out, and write ten forecasts of your own with a sheet that scores them.

  • Rebuild Daron Acemoglu's estimate of AI's effect on productivity from its four printed inputs, then swap in a reply's inputs and find which disagreement matters most.

  • Reproduce a published AI result

    Learning route · Kosplora

    Rerun a published AI safety experiment from its released data and compare your figures with the published ones.

  • Start learning about AI safety

    Learning route · Kosplora

    Six stops from an illustrated tour to a free course, including a strong case for alarm and a strong case against it.

  • Local AI service design

    Learning route · Kosplora

    Follow a route about community uses of AI and the risk of increasing surveillance.

  • Gathering continuity plan

    Learning route · Kosplora

    Study how recurring gatherings work and prepare for a change of organizer.

  • Community-listing verification

    Learning route · Kosplora

    Trace what one intentional community actually invites and record a dated correction.

  • Pattern index

    Index · Kosplora

    Find explanations of patterns across subjects and links to the available simulations.

  • Credential proposal

    Research proposal · Kosplora

    Proposed assessment criteria, practical demonstrations and partner-issued credentials. Assessment is not available.

Tools for three study tasks

Finding material, understanding a concept and checking evidence, with the tools on this site for each.

Find material

Educational resource library

700 resources from Values Commons.

Search by subject and recorded cost. Follow the source records to assess the material.

Understand a concept
Scientific simulationsChange a model and observe what follows.
Learning routesWork through a sequence of sources and tasks.
Evaluate evidence
Digital-agency guidePractise checking claims, requests and permissions.
Socratic Hearth ↗Record a position, its evidence and what would change your mind.
Suggested uses of available tools. Each opens separately; notes do not transfer between sites.

In development

These features are proposed or incomplete. They are not available as services. The direction, drawn

More detailed library filters
The resource library now supports search, topic tags and recorded cost. Separate filters for level, format and exact licence, and adjustable ranking within Kosplora, are not yet built.
A personal study planner
Turn a question and your available time into a sequence of sources and practical work. Current routes have fixed steps; adjustable ranking is demonstrated on one example. A route generator is not built.
Digital-literacy practice
Practise checking claims, identifying manipulation and controlling what an AI assistant may do, including responses to adversarial uses of AI. The written guide is available; a complete interactive curriculum is not built.
Assessment and recognised proof of knowledge
Demonstrate knowledge acquired in any setting through work, explanation and unfamiliar tasks, assessed against published criteria. Assessment, credential issuance and partner recognition are not available. Measures against concealed assistance, including in-ear devices, remain unvalidated research. Read the credential proposal