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THE HORIZON
SECTION 20
ISSUE 001
INFERENCEprovocationnowconfidence / high
Alignment Starts with an Undo Button
Provocation: before solving value alignment, make autonomy easy to stop, inspect, reverse, and replace. Bounded state changes, immutable logs, and tested restoration cannot prevent every mistake; they can keep a mistake from becoming permanent. Reversibility buys the time deeper technical and institutional alignment still needs.
Why this idea is here
What the evidence establishes.
The safety report describes uncertain real-world safeguard effectiveness; agent benchmarks reveal consequential autonomy with limited evaluation disclosure.
Source ledger
Read the sources.
- S01International AI Safety Report 2026
international scientific report / published 2026-02-03 / retrieved 2026-07-09
- S02The 2025 AI Agent Index — published June 2026
peer-reviewed transparency index / published 2026-06-25 / retrieved 2026-07-10