"The safety and alignment bubble is collapsing under market reality"

NathanpmYoung · x · 2026-09-11

Gerard Sans argues the AI safety and alignment bubble is collapsing under market reality: you cannot backpropagate your way into system reliability. Multi-agent systems demand deterministic controls, isolation boundaries and rigorous cybersecurity—standard software engineering practices that ML teams keep ignoring. "Statistical approximations are not safety controls. Stop treating software architecture as an emergent property of gradient descent."

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