“‘a monitor actually observes in real time an action an agent is doing, it decides to block it… would have helped and prevented the actual incident’”

Alan Chan, GovAI · "The Cognitive Revolution" · Governing AI Agents: Alan Chan of GovAI on Monitoring, Agent IDs, Rogue Agents & Preparing for RSI

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advocated for synchronous real-time monitoring that observes each agent action and blocks it if a classifier flags it as bad

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