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AI harness design: Gates over orchestrators, memo argues

An engineering memo proposes that AI system harnesses should function as gates rather than orchestrators, prioritizing stop, refuse, and destroy mechanisms over continuous completion. The memo details experiments comparing a 'gate' approach against a strawman 'orchestrator' using a proxy task and the GLM-5.2 model. Results indicated the gate approach significantly reduced false accepts and late accepts, though it introduced a measurable rate of false rejects. AI

IMPACT Suggests a shift in AI system architecture, prioritizing safety and determinism through gate mechanisms over continuous orchestration.

RANK_REASON This is an engineering memo presenting an argument and experimental results, not a formal research paper or product release.

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AI harness design: Gates over orchestrators, memo argues

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