An artificial-intelligence system for manipulating resources to minimize exposure harm in a chaotic environment, comprising: one or more autonomous router or firewall devices; and a central server comprising a processor and non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive a first set of sensor readings from one or more remote electronic sensors, during a first time window, the sensor readings recording levels of network utilization in a communications network; receive a critical time interval during which the communications network may experience a failure from overutilization and a maximum permitted risk exposure for the time interval; determine, based on the first set of sensor readings and based on an assumption of random walk behavior in the levels of network utilization, a weighted total risk exposure during the critical time interval based at least in part on integration of a risk function with respect to time from a present moment to the conclusion of the critical time interval, wherein the risk function is based at least in part on the complementary error function; determine that the weighted total risk exposure exceeds the maximum permitted risk exposure; and in response to determining that that the weighted total risk exposure exceeds the maximum permitted risk exposure, cause the one or more autonomous router or firewall devices to decrease the weighted total risk exposure by preventing a network message from being transmitted through the network. one or more autonomous router or firewall devices; and a central server comprising a processor and non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive a first set of sensor readings from one or more remote electronic sensors, during a first time window, the sensor readings recording levels of network utilization in a communications network; receive a critical time interval during which the communications network may experience a failure from overutilization and a maximum permitted risk exposure for the time interval; determine, based on the first set of sensor readings and based on an assumption of random walk behavior in the levels of network utilization, a weighted total risk exposure during the critical time interval based at least in part on integration of a risk function with respect to time from a present moment to the conclusion of the critical time interval, wherein the risk function is based at least in part on the complementary error function; determine that the weighted total risk exposure exceeds the maximum permitted risk exposure; and in response to determining that that the weighted total risk exposure exceeds the maximum permitted risk exposure, cause the one or more autonomous router or firewall devices to decrease the weighted total risk exposure by preventing a network message from being transmitted through the network. receive a first set of sensor readings from one or more remote electronic sensors, during a first time window, the sensor readings recording levels of network utilization in a communications network; receive a critical time interval during which the communications network may experience a failure from overutilization and a maximum permitted risk exposure for the time interval; determine, based on the first set of sensor readings and based on an assumption of random walk behavior in the levels of network utilization, a weighted total risk exposure during the critical time interval based at least in part on integration of a risk function with respect to time from a present moment to the conclusion of the critical time interval, wherein the risk function is based at least in part on the complementary error function; determine that the weighted total risk exposure exceeds the maximum permitted risk exposure; and in response to determining that that the weighted total risk exposure exceeds the maximum permitted risk exposure, cause the one or more autonomous router or firewall devices to decrease the weighted total risk exposure by preventing a network message from being transmitted through the network.