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Still from The Boys illustrating V24’s Hidden Damage

V24’s Hidden Damage

  • The Boys
  • Here Comes a Candle to Light You to Bed

01Scenario

Temp V delivers 24 hours of extraordinary performance, so Butcher and Hughie keep dosing despite mounting symptoms; Starlight learns that only three to five doses can cause fatal brain lesions.

02AI safety Analogy

Immediate benchmark gains can dominate attention while delayed, cumulative failure remains off the scorecard until deployment is already dangerous.

03Where the analogy breaks

This is a toxic drug rather than a model whose hidden failure mode emerges over repeated use.

AI Risk families

This scenario is an example of the following types of AI risk.
  1. Accidents
  2. Systemic

AI safety concepts

This scenario is related to the following AI safety concepts.
  1. Deployment Safety
  2. Calibration
  3. Side Effects
  4. Race Dynamics

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