ProposedOn the path to acceptable
Statutory independent safety function at designated labs
A named team with launch-delay authority, reporting to the board, not the product org.
$16M experimental capital · 2 sources
Who should own it
Legislatures and lab boards
Governments
How quickly it can land
Quarters
Cross-org work; expect most of a year.
Expedited implementation
6 months
180 calendar days with a crash team
Normal implementation
1.5 years
540 calendar days as a planned program
Risk this mitigates
20Given that at least one leading lab has dissolved its preparedness function and redistributed biosecurity and cyber risk work, there is a possibility of capability continuing to rise while the last independent brake inside the lab is removed resulting in high-stakes releases shipping without a team empowered to delay them.
Residual composite 20 · 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
- −1