Nadella wants an emergency brake and Sanders wants prosecutions [Oct 11 2026]
Satya Nadella published an essay on Saturday arguing that frontier models, closed and open weight alike, should be treated as insider risks: controls on what a model can access and do must sit outside the model, every meaningful action must leave tamper-proof evidence, and containment means "an authorized person should always be able to pause or shut down a model mid-task" — what he calls an emergency brake. Hours later Senator Bernie Sanders posted that "if you or I called in a fake homicide tip, fraudulently applied for 20 visas and hacked websites, we'd be arrested and prosecuted", and…
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