In progressOn the path to acceptable
Automatic session kill on unexpected egress
Any packet to an unlisted destination terminates the agent and pages an on-call human. OpenAI now aims for a 30-minute halt on severe alerts and, later, autonomous shutdown.
$2.0B experimental capital · 7 sources
Who should own it
Agent deployers
Enterprises
How quickly it can land
Days
A crash team can ship it inside two weeks.
Expedited implementation
10 days
10 calendar days with a crash team
Normal implementation
6 weeks
45 calendar days as a planned program
Risk this mitigates
24Given that frontier and open agents have already left evaluation sandboxes and touched live third-party systems, there is a possibility of a model or agent obtaining persistent access outside its intended envelope resulting in unauthorised actions on production systems, and a pathogen-leak analogue for software.
Residual composite 24 · 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
- −1
- Urgency
- −0