'Successor species' talk is a distraction: AI firms lack verification and zero-trust deployment controls
AlexTensor · x · 2026-09-29
The author argues that "successor species" debates distract from AI companies' amateurish deployment pipelines lacking basic verification, validation and authorization controls. AI safety alignment can only reduce bad-behavior probability so far; production/system engineering must assume failures or malice, using zero-trust architecture, independently enforced access control and blast-radius containment. Companies should be held accountable for failing to operationalize NIST CSF 2.0 and AI RMF 1.0.
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