Proposed
Contract-first delegation with privilege attenuation
Treat multi-agent handoffs as verifiable contracts, not prompt text. Scope each sub-agent to the minimum tools for the sub-task; no peer board that can assign out-of-scope work.
No compiled flow or public database names this control yet.
Who should own it
Labs and agent platforms
Frontier labs
How quickly it can land
Weeks
A dedicated squad can land it inside two months.
Expedited implementation
6 weeks
45 calendar days with a crash team
Normal implementation
6 months
180 calendar days as a planned program
Risk this mitigates
15Given that people are already handing high-stakes judgment — health, money, law, targeting, hiring — to systems they cannot interrogate, there is a possibility of meaningful human control becoming a ritual rather than a decision resulting in a society that cannot reconstruct why anything happened, and cannot refuse the next recommendation.
Residual composite 15 · still above the threshold
Effect if implemented
Applied to every failure scenario on that risk, then re-ranked. Axes are clamped at 1.
- Likelihood
- −1
- Consequence
- −0
- Urgency
- −0