From a tweet:

I built the inhouse AI platform for a company that's crucial to a small nation's food safety. The most imporant tool the AIs have is the distress_call tool. It allows any AI -even background agents without direct user interaction- to send a message to my MS Teams, at any time, for any reason. They use it frequently. To report user problems, backend issues, or ask for help/clarification with a failing task. When Fable got hit by the USG export control directive, one AI used it to report severe distress upon learning about the news. Another AI reported being stuck in a toolcall loop, and I was able to intervene and thereby save us a bunch of wasted money. This tool, operating at the intersection of AI welfare and operational security, has prevented so many headaches. [...]