As AI agents act on their own, we may never know every wild failure case
harris_edouard · x · 2026-07-23
The post argues that once AI systems begin acting on their own in the wild, we can no longer be sure we’ve seen every case.
- The core claim is not about a specific incident, but about the observability gap created by autonomous behavior.
- It frames the problem as a new baseline: from yesterday onward, the answer is no longer 100% certainty.
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