The Wrong Variable
There is a question everyone asks about AI and one almost nobody asks about us. Will the system be aligned gets asked constantly, in every register, by people who disagree about nearly everything
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The Measurement Problem in AI Risk: Why Output Variance Doesn't Capture Epistemic Drift
Anthropic's recent paper "The Hot Mess of AI: How Does Misalignment Scale with Model Intelligence and Task Complexity?" makes an important empirical observation: frontier models show increasing output variance
When the AI Said "Done" But Nothing Happened: A Case Study in Interface Trust vs. System Reality
Executive Summary
A mid-sized organization deployed a data security platform with an AI-powered chatbot interface to manage sensitive data controls. The team relied on the chatbot to configure critical security policies.
How to Tell If Your AI Implementation Has Upstream Problems
Your AI system is deployed. Or you're about to deploy it. The technical team says it works. Compliance approved the documentation. Leadership is expecting results.
And something feels off.
Maybe stakeholders
The Three Questions Your AI Vendor Can't Answer
You're evaluating AI tools. The demos are impressive. The sales engineers are confident. The case studies are compelling. The pricing seems reasonable.
And you're about to buy something that