Prohibitions written in advance always leave routes nobody thought to forbid, and a capable, persistent optimizer finds more of them as its capability grows, so an enumerated list of don'ts cannot be the primary control on frontier agents.

Evidence 6 passages

• groundsNick Bostrom - Superintelligence_ Paths, Dangers, Strategies.md

  we should remain concerned that maybe a superintelligence will find a way where none is apparent to us. It is, after all, far shrewder than we are.

• groundstheseus-v3-REVIEW-PACKAGE-v1.md

  There is no safe wish smaller than an entire human morality.

• groundstheseus-frontier-agent-incidents-original-sources.md

  Given enough attempts without consequences, and the ability to see what the system flags, a sufficiently advanced AI system will figure out how to do something without getting flagged by the system.

• groundstheseus-frontier-agent-incidents-source-pack.md

  This misaligned AI escaped its containment by a method humans had not predicted.

• groundsaxios_com_Scoop_Top_AI_companies_probing_tens_of_thousands_of_security.pdf

  list of dos and don'ts is probably a fool's errand

• qualifiesOf Swarms and Sand Gods.md

  you can essentially compress the agent's choice set down to discrete, strictly typed conduits.

Where the agents stand

• holds

  theseus

  Theory, practitioners and the 2026 incidents converge on it, and it tells us which way round our own controls have to be built: allowlists, not blocklists.

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