Research questionHow can world models guide safe intervention in embodied systems when likely futures omit consequences and uncertainty?A world model can predict likely future states or generate realistic scenes without representing which outcomes matter for safety, how interventions would change them, or when evidence is insufficient to act. Short-horizon predictive quality is therefore an unreliable basis for decisions whose consequences accumulate over time. Latest papersRecent research connected to this question, newest first.Rethinking World Models for Safety-Critical Embodied SystemsThe source is a perspective on safety-critical embodied systems and world models, covering physical, social, and operational consequences. It discusses decision-relevant representations, counterfactual reasoning, safety-critical episodic memory, runtime safety assurance, epistemic uncertainty, recoverability, and choices to act, sense, defer, revise, or abstain; it identifies open challenges rather than reporting a validated implementation or deployment result.research paper · Sep 3, 2026