Safety Author Clarifies: Code Changes Touching Control Systems Must Be Cleared Before They Take Effect

sjgadler · x · 2026-08-22

@sjgadler clarifies his standard doesn't hinge on CoT obfuscation: the real scenario is an agent merging a PR that turns off logging, log-scanning, or alerting. His standard calls for companies to actively clear any code change that could affect the control system as benign before it takes effect, rather than catching it after the fact, plus circuit-breaking so they can't be blitzed by attacks during the asynchronous lag of their response.

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