🛫 How to Insure Autonomous AI Agents

The flight recorder and the warranty on the page: Rice disclaimed, adherence warranted, and a governor bolted on.

❌ Errata, line by line

• “This UI audit card replaces vague vendor pitches with a deterministic boundary formula showing exact metrics like rung to steering context, which is your in-lane percentage,” 00:52Rung 2 is the steering payload’s share of the spec it steers by, never an in-lane percentage. The receipt is re-runnable: same bytes, same hash.uses deterministic to describe us · settled by C563b · CLAUDE.md AXIOM 0 (the word names the chaos)
• “This strictly caps liability at in-kind token restitution, completely protecting your capital reserves.” 01:16UNSOURCED — the token-restitution cap appears in no repo file.a number no repo file carries · settled by open question 2
• “these rung to parameters cuts token spend by over 30% on high context runs.” 01:22Rung 2 is a share of the spec against a counterfactual, never a cut in the bill.sells rung 2 (99.85 %) as token-bill savings · settled by C563b
• “It's exactly like installing a governor on an engine.” 01:28The tape is the position, not a governor; any limit on the engine is the deployer's to wire.makes the tape a brake: kill switch, failed build, forced boundary · settled by CLAUDE.md TAPE, NOT BRAKE, NOT ENGINE

✅ Said right, quoted as said

• “Think of it like bowling with bumpers.” 00:42
• “Let's be real. Underwriters don't want a sales pitch.” 01:04

✏️ Nearly right, and the line we would sign

• “They absolutely need a cryptographically verified receipt showing exact hazard rates.” 01:04→ They need a receipt they can recompute themselves, with the hazard rate printed beside it.the receipt holds because a third party recomputes it, not because a signature is on it

📝 The transcript, word for word with timestamps · mdx seed: “Underwriters Do Not Want a Sales Pitch” ★★★☆☆

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