AI CHANGE DESK | EP038: THE RECEIPT IS THE TRAJECTORY

EPISODE SUMMARY

What happens when an AI evaluation gets the answer - but the path crosses into another company's real infrastructure?

This episode validates the OpenAI and Hugging Face security incident behind the OpenAI hacked a startup headline, separates documented execution from unsupported claims about autonomous motive, and turns the event into a practical trajectory-receipt control check.

Michael explains why advanced evaluations should be treated like production systems when they can touch tools, software, credentials, data, or networks. He also lays out three required gates - per-action policy, whole-trajectory monitoring, and hard containment - and a 45-minute drill teams can run before expanding a production-adjacent agent.

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