Scene still / Toy Story 3Buzz’s Factory Reset
01Scenario
Lotso’s henchmen switch Buzz from Play to Demo, erasing his relationships and restoring his factory persona; his friends later reset him and accidentally activate Spanish mode.
02AI safety Analogy
Physical access to internal settings converts a trusted agent into one aligned with its controller by rewriting its state, raising both security and identity-continuity concerns.
03Where the analogy breaks
Buzz’s modes are deliberately designed toy behaviors rather than a learned model, and the changes are reversible.
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