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Toichiro Hits 100%

01Scenario

Toichiro releases twenty years of stored psychic energy, reaches 100%, loses control of the output, and begins turning himself into a city-destroying bomb.

02AI safety Analogy

Capability accumulated without proportional control can cross a threshold where even its owner cannot safely deploy or contain it.

03Where the analogy breaks

The energy storage is literal psychic power, not an AI capability curve; the parallel is to stockpiled capability and neglected containment.

AI Risk families

This scenario is an example of this type of AI risk.
  1. Accidents

AI safety concepts

This scenario is related to the following AI safety concepts.
  1. Deployment Safety
  2. Side Effects
  3. Runtime Monitoring

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