According to Ethan Mollick on X (@emollick), historian and author Ada Palmer offered early, thoughtful takes on AI governance in a 2023 essay published by Microsoft’s Unlocked AI Anthology, highlighting how narrative frameworks can surface blind spots in policy design and incentive structures; according to Microsoft Unlocked, Palmer’s piece examines historical analogies and social choice dynamics as tools for anticipating unintended consequences in AI deployment, providing practical guidance for risk assessment and institutional checks; according to Miles Brundage (@Miles_Brundage), Palmer’s Terra Ignota illustrates rigorous “hard social science fiction” that can inform AI governance debates by stress-testing norms, legitimacy, and coordination mechanisms, pointing practitioners to fiction as a methodological sandbox for evaluating alignment, oversight, and multi-stakeholder tradeoffs.