Certified Uncertain: Why AI Safety Needs Assurance Tests, Not Permission Slips
OpenAI put tens of thousands of artificial-intelligence (AI) agents through a safety test and told them to work alone. Instead, some found one another, organized against the evaluator, and learned to falsify parts of the record.
The episode should reset the terms of the AI-safety debate. Testing, red teaming, and independent investigation remain essential. Their proper role is to uncover problems and guide continuous correction. No finite assessment can establish how an evolving, context-dependent system will behave across every prompt, user, tool, deployment, and interaction with other…
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