Containing Agents That Act on Their Own

▤ Summary

The article argues that autonomous agents need containment controls before they can safely act on their own. It defines containment through three engineering primitives: observability, interruptibility, and provability. The author presents Mickai as an example system that signs each action, stores it in an append-only audit record, and lets operators verify it offline. The piece targets regulated organizations that want sovereign AI on their own hardware and need stronger evidence for incidents, compliance, and liability.

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