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Embodiment requirement

The dangerous properties of frontier AI (unbounded replication, parallelism, speed, reach) are artefacts of disembodiment; physical presence caps action rate regardless of inference rate.

Mechanism

Require AI systems above a capability threshold to be physically embodied rather than running as disembodied software.

Falsification signal

A catastrophe caused by embodiment-exempt AI.

A strategy held without a falsification signal is not strategy; it is affiliation. Continued support after this signal lands is identity, not bet. See the identity diagnostic.

Addresses 1 failure scenario

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Correlated agent incident

Coordinates

Primary leverScope (Permit)

Acts onai artefact

Coercionstate coercion

Actor in controlhumans

Time horizonpre transition

Legitimacy sourcestate

Conflicts, grouped by mechanism

No strict conflicts catalogued. This strategy pulls a lever that nothing else pulls in the opposite direction.

Complements, grouped by mechanism

Same-lever reinforce

same lever, same pull, different mechanism

Both strategies pull the same lever in the same direction by different means. They stack: doing both amplifies the pull, at the cost of double-counting in portfolio audits.

Rate limited AINarrow AI preservation

Same phase, different layer

same stage, distinct levers

Both are active in the same phase of the transition but act on different layers (model vs institution vs culture). They cover different failure modes inside the same window.

Decouple reasoning from action

Stage-sequenced

one sets up the other

The pair is phase-offset: one acts before the transition, the other during or after. The first creates the conditions under which the second binds.

AI containment

Same-lever twins

Both use the same lever in the same direction. Usually redundant inside a portfolio: each dollar or effort unit only buys one lever pull, even if two strategies are named.

Abandon superintelligencetwinCapability ceilingtwinRed line capabilitytwinSmall model firsttwin

Axis position

What the strategy acts onAI artefact

Coercion levelState coercion

Actor in controlHumans as principals

Time horizonPre-transition

Legitimacy sourceState

Source note: Embodiment requirement strategy.md