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Autonomy without boundaries is a liability.
The value of autonomy is proportional to the quality of its boundaries.
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Autonomy is useful because it removes human bottlenecks. It is dangerous because it removes human judgment at the moment it is most needed.
The resolution is not less autonomy. It is bounded autonomy. Define what the system may do, enforce those boundaries architecturally, and build escalation paths for situations that fall outside the envelope.
Boundaries are not constraints on capability. They are the conditions that make capability safe to use.
What this changes in practice: before deploying an autonomous system, ask where its boundaries are, how they are enforced, and what happens when they are reached.