At AI Impacts, we’ve been looking into how people, institutions, and society approach novel, powerful technologies. One part of this is our technological temptations project, in which we are looking into cases where some actors had a strong incentive to develop or deploy a technology, but chose not to or showed hesitation or caution in their approach. Our researcher Jeffrey Heninger has recently finished some case studies on this topic, covering geoengineering, nuclear power, and human challenge trials.