# Containment **Entity class:** Epidemiological And Ideological-Transmission Bridge concept **Containment** is a concept in the epidemiological and ideological-transmission bridge of the counterterrorism predictive-graph ontology. Containment matters because the analytic object is a changing, partially observed system rather than a finished dossier. ## Counterterrorism predictive-graph role The epidemiological vocabulary is a formal model of network-mediated propagation and reinforcement. It does not make an idea a biological pathogen or every exposed person an adopter. The analytic state should distinguish ground truth, observed evidence, inferred state, and predicted state. ## Relationships - **domain router:** [[wiki/Network Epidemiology|Network Epidemiology]]. - **ontology neighbors:** [[wiki/Intervention Modeling|Intervention Modeling]] and [[wiki/Network Intervention|Network Intervention]]. - **synthesis:** [[wiki/Counterterrorism Predictive Graph|Counterterrorism Predictive Graph]] and [[wiki/Predictive Intelligence Loop|Predictive Intelligence Loop]]. ## Simple Reminders, Quotations, and Thoughts > "Setting aside the hard problem of alignment, we need to start with an engineering approach to containment and governance. We need to surround non-deterministic models with strong, deterministic system design, human controls, and reliable operating procedures, and establish industry standards where existing ones are insufficient." > **— Satya Nadella**, *Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era, October 10, 2026* [[reminders/AI Control/Surround Nondeterministic Models with Deterministic Controls by Satya Nadella|Surround Nondeterministic Models with Deterministic Controls by Satya Nadella]] > "We must assume a model is compromised and contain it from the start. Think of it like an emergency brake. An authorized person should always be able to pause or shut down a model mid-task. More advanced models will require more advanced containment technologies that we need to standardize on." > **— Satya Nadella**, *Models as Insider Risks in the Super Intelligence Era, October 10, 2026* [[reminders/AI Control/Every Advanced Model Needs an Emergency Brake by Satya Nadella|Every Advanced Model Needs an Emergency Brake by Satya Nadella]] ## Sources - [National Institute of Justice — Five Things About the Role of Social Networks in Domestic Radicalization, December 2023](https://nij.ojp.gov/topics/articles/five-things-about-role-social-networks-domestic-radicalization) - [Mason Youngblood — Extremist ideology as a complex contagion, July 31, 2020](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-00546-3) **As of:** 2026-09-23