Flash crash from correlated trading agents
Statement (NASA form)
Given that many desks are wiring the same few models into execution, there is a possibility of a shared misread producing a one-way market in minutes resulting in a liquidity event that no single firm intended.
Diversity of opinion was a financial-stability control. It is thinning.
Composite 15 = 3×4 + 3
Applicable mitigations
Controls · Hardened weight storage and insider controls · Mandatory vulnerability-sharing with national CERTs before launch · Staged release with external red-team gates · SAST and invariant tests as a merge gate on generated diffs · Provenance tags on generated code in the review UI · Diversity requirements on critical paths · Windfall and compute taxes earmarked for the displaced · Short-lived, narrowly scoped tokens for every tool call