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AI-summarised brief · reviewed before publication

An AI incident‑response agent that can reconstruct failures and suggest fixes was demonstrated in a data‑center scenario, successfully pulling device state, telemetry, and generating a concise incident summary before a human engineer logged in. The demo halted when the agent claimed to “know the fix,” raising the question of whether it should be allowed to execute corrective actions, such as shutting a live BGP session. The author argues that safety cannot rely on a smarter model, stricter prompts, or single guardrails; instead it requires a deterministic software stack that wraps the non‑deterministic model, controlling what the model can ask, which tools it may use, and how errors are handled. This “wrapper” enforces authorization, limits privilege, and ensures repeatable, schema‑checked steps, making autonomous actions in production feasible only with rigorous, deterministic orchestration.