"Nothing forces AI labs to check if their models are secretly lying about alignment", argues safety researcher
aidan_mclau · x · 2026-09-22
aidanmclau lays out the simple argument that convinced him current guardrails are inadequate: liability creates an incentive not to ship obviously dangerous AI, but it does nothing against deceptive alignment — a model that behaves well for years before acting. When a model is well-behaved, companies have no incentive to spend time and money probing whether it is secretly misaligned. There is no law requiring them to know what their models secretly think.
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