Designing Control for Autonomous Software
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Frontal Team8 min readI'd deliberately avoid making this another generic "AI safety" post.
Frame it as control engineering.
Explain: Capability without control is not production autonomy.
Then cover:
- identity
- permissions
- least privilege
- action policies
- sandboxing
- approval boundaries
- interruption
- auditability
- traceability
The key principle: The more capable the software becomes, the more important its control surface becomes.
This ties directly into the worldview established in "We see things differently."