Turn Science Fiction into Experiments

Rather than only using science fiction as metaphor or warning, researchers and policymakers should systematically convert specific speculative scenarios into controlled social and behavioral experiments to measure likely human, institutional, and market responses to emerging technologies. Doing so would let regulators and designers gather early, testable evidence about harms, preferences, and policy levers before technologies are fully entrenched. — This reframes how societies prepare for novel tech: by treating fiction-enabled scenarios as a low‑cost laboratory for anticipatory governance, reducing the Collingridge dilemma’s unpredictability.