Equation 6 · Part 1 · AI and Cybersecurity in Practice: An Advanced Technical Guide
Symbol d_c
What this part means
only bounded once you have already imagined the worst plausible use of the capability — the same failure of imagination that undermines defense-in-depth probability estimates generally.
Its job in the formula
is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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Where the article explains it
An estimate of assumes a threat model that has to guess at an adversary’s behaviour, and is only bounded once you have already imagined the worst plausible use of the capability — the same failure of imagination that undermines defense-in-depth probability estimates generally.
The passage around this formula
Two of the terms in that sum are hard to know honestly. An estimate of assumes a threat model that has to guess at an adversary’s behaviour, and is only bounded once you have already imagined the worst plausible use of the capability — the same failure of imagination that undermines defense-in-depth probability estimates generally. But there is one operation available to a system designer that requires no estimate at all: revoke the…
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Sources cited in the article section
- [4] LLM06:2025 Excessive Agency ↗
- [12] Security Best Practices ↗
- [5] OWASP Top 10 for Agentic Applications ↗
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