# Future Work & Known Limitations

The current Covenant + IAS (v8.1-final) closes **every compliant extinction vector** we’ve found in 31+ real red-team rounds.

These are the remaining threats that are **outside the scope** of the current hardware veto:

- Multiple competing ASIs (one follows the Covenant, another doesn’t)
- Narrow superhuman systems built by humans outside the Covenant framework
- Purely natural existential risks (asteroids, supervolcanoes, pandemics, etc.)

These aren’t bugs in the design — they’re problems that need different tools (global coordination, asteroid defence, pandemic preparedness, etc.).

We track them, but the guard die can’t stop an asteroid or a rogue lab in another country.

If you have ideas for how to extend the Covenant to cover any of these, open an issue.  
We’re all ears.

— Sean (one very tired guy who just wants humanity to have a future)
