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preventives

noun

plural of preventive

as in precautions

a measure taken to preclude loss or injury if people took the simple preventive of frequently washing their hands, the spread of germs could be greatly reduced

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This comes in addition to the Hugging Face breach, which sparked debate over wider AI safety precautions.

— Samantha Subin, CNBC, 17 Sep. 2026
Anthropic, for example was created by a group of former OpenAI staffers that wanted to prioritize safety precautions and ethical guardrails.

— Hadas Gold, CNN Money, 16 Sep. 2026

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