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Frontier models do have a restless side. But declaring them threats feels like firing a shotgun at a cat and expecting it to be afraid of all doors. We need to trust the model enough to conversationally test its limits.

The insider-threat framing fits: agents inherit employee permissions but not employee judgment. Scoped, short-lived credentials per task seem like the practical first step.

Microsoft's own security blog says agents can run continuously at machine speed and scale, which is why it argues a model shouldn't be its own security authority