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AI-era robot safety shifts from faults to adversarial perception
Sep 16, 2026SOURCE: spectrum.ieee.org
SO WHAT
In the thousand-day window, safety standards must treat perception-and-control manipulation as routine, or physical autonomy becomes a controlled risk surface. The phase transition is governance before hardware.
The wire reframes safety as resistance to attackers manipulating what robots see, decide, or do. The old system’s “nothing broke” assumption is no longer reliable.
This is Negative Resistance’s reframed reading of a reported signal. The headline and analysis above are our interpretation through the thousand-day-window lens. The original reporting lives at the source linked above.