Symbol k

The passage around this formula

where C($\text{model}$) is the model’s evaluated capability on a specific threat class, $\tau_k$ is the threshold defining ASL level k , and $S_k$ is the security and deployment standard the policy requires once that threshold is crossed. This is worth writing out because a threshold-triggered commitment is only meaningful if it is sometimes not satisfied by default — otherwise it is a description of business as usual, not a constraint. Whether the policy binds in practice is therefore an empirical question about later events, addressed below.

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