Frontier AI labs still won’t say how they’d contain a rogue model
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The absence of public containment plans for rogue models means most organizations are building on stacks whose worst‑case playbooks they can’t see. If you’re integrating frontier systems into critical workflows, treat them as black boxes with unknown failure modes and add your own kill‑switches and isolation layers.
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