18Energy & infrastructureBelow the top 20
A heater the agent ran because the forecast said cold
CapabilityAffordanceImpact domainBoth
Statement (NASA form)
Given that HVAC agents already act without a person, there is a possibility of a fire, a bill, or a death in the heat resulting in the thermostat as an unsupervised process.
Likelihood
3Probable
Consequence
5Catastrophic
Urgency
3Priority
Personal slice · home. Experimental household card. Not a certified finding.
Composite 18 = 3×5 + 3
Applicable mitigations
Controls · Automatic session kill on unexpected egress · Hardware-enforced sandbox with attested images · Default-deny egress for eval and untrusted agents · Mandatory chain-of-thought monitoring on tool-using evals and RL · Siting only where spare water and firm power already exist · Closed-loop cooling as a permit condition · Training load pays its own interconnection and water · Pre-certified civic ranker audits