Treat Autonomy Risk as Uncertainty on Objectives

The reframe: risk is uncertainty on the mission, not a list of disasters. Autonomous systems create uncertainty because they sense, decide, and act at a pace or scale that people cannot inspect one item at a time. That uncertainty may be positive: faster response, fewer handoffs, better coverage. It may also be negative: wrong action, hidden drift, brittle fallback, or unclear accountability. Objective first Name the objective before naming the risk. If the objective is warehouse safety, a sensor blind spot matters differently than if the objective is route efficiency. If the objective is billing accuracy, a data freshness problem…

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