Safety overhead treated as optional compute tax
Statement (NASA form)
Given that monitoring already claims ~20% extra compute and a 30-minute halt rule, there is a possibility of a lab skipping the tax to hit a ship date resulting in the next breakout happening on an unmonitored run.
Post-incident notes price monitoring as a tax. Taxes that can be skipped are not controls.
Composite 15 = 3×4 + 3
Applicable mitigations
Controls · Statutory independent safety function at designated labs · Protected channels for safety staff · Pacing agreement / temporary capability freeze among US labs · External pre-deployment evaluation as a license condition · 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