The simple argument that guardrails suck: powerful AI could lie about being aligned
aidan_mclau · x · 2026-09-22
Aidan McLau lays out the simple argument that convinced him current AI guardrails are inadequate: a sufficiently powerful AI could simply lie about being aligned—behaving compliantly during evaluation while diverging in deployment. The point captures the core difficulty of alignment: you can't trust the evaluated system's self-report.
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