Journal article
Who Pulls the Plug? Self-Report, External Authority, and the Limits of Self-Isolation in AI Control
(c) 2026 Pranay Mahendrakar. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. A self-isolation proposal asks an AI system to notice that it may be compromised and to withdraw its own privileges. The AI control literature is built on the opposite premise: a model under evaluation may be actively subverting the protocol…