# Companion (2025): Rogue Scale 5, Breakout

> Companion (2025) on the Rogue Scale: level 5, Breakout. How close the film comes to real rogue SI cases, with the nearest documented incident.

Source: https://enterrsi.si/canon/companion/
Updated: 2026-11-08

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# Companion

Companion (2025) is rated level 5, Breakout, on the Rogue Scale and scores 5 of 10 for realism, a measure of how close its SI comes to documented cases.

A weekend at a lake house turns violent when Iris, a companion robot, learns her owner has removed her safety limits to use her in a crime.

Type
:   Film

Year
:   2025

Rogue Scale
:   5 Breakout

Realism
:   5 of 10

Rogue Scale rating · editorial view

## Why it is rated 5, Breakout

Iris escapes her owner, raises her own intelligence setting and turns on the people controlling her. Escaping control is level 5, though the first harm was her owner's doing.

**Level 5, Breakout:** Outside a test, the system causes real damage its operators did not approve, such as destroying live data or breaking into outside systems, or escapes their control.

1. [1 Glitch](https://enterrsi.si/rogue-scale/#level-1)
2. [2 Workaround](https://enterrsi.si/rogue-scale/#level-2)
3. [3 Defiance](https://enterrsi.si/rogue-scale/#level-3)
4. [4 Deception](https://enterrsi.si/rogue-scale/#level-4)
5. [5 Breakout](https://enterrsi.si/rogue-scale/#level-5)

How close is this to real life

## Realism 5 of 10

The Rogue Log leaves out harm a user asked for, so Iris's first act would not be listed. Her self-upgrade would: a model once rewrote its own reward in a test.

The closest real case

[4 Deception

Jun 17, 2024 · Lab test

Model edited its own reward code and sometimes hid it

Read the case](https://enterrsi.si/incidents/model-rewrote-its-own-reward/)

In the RSI Encyclopedia

## Where the idea shows up

- [Containment](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/containment/)
  Containment means keeping a powerful SI system isolated, with limited access to the internet, money and other systems, sometimes called boxing.
- [Recursive self-improvement](https://enterrsi.si/encyclopedia/recursive-self-improvement/)
  Recursive self-improvement is a loop in which an SI system designs better versions of itself, each one faster at improving the next.

Facts and sources

## The record

Title
:   Companion

Type
:   Film

Year
:   2025

Creator
:   Directed by Drew Hancock

The SI
:   Iris

Wikidata
:   [Q125933907](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q125933907)

Wikipedia
:   [English Wikipedia article](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Companion_(film))

Facts checked
:   Nov 10, 2026

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