ai-safety

9 notes carry this tag — 4 claims, 3 captures, 2 essays. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

Essays

normal accident

essay drafting 2026-09-13 · normal-accident-theory, charles-perrow, ai-infrastructure, power-grid, sociology-of-technology
the answer desired

essay draft 2026-07-13 · ai-safety, argumentation, toulmin, safety-case, gap-detection

Everything else

Does a direct read of Charles Perrow's 1984 Normal Accidents confirm Williams & Yampolskiy's summary of Normal Accident Theory?

capture promoted Tier 4 2026-09-14 · normal-accident-theory, charles-perrow, williams-yampolskiy, ai-safety, primary-source-verification
Charles Perrow's 1984 'Normal Accident Theory' — reached via a misattributed sociology-of-technology hook — is the unnamed framework already latent in the vault's own AI-power-grid attack claim

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-09-13 · cross-domain-bridge, cross-time-bridge, sociology-of-technology, normal-accident-theory, ai-safety
Perrow's 1984 Normal Accident Theory holds that any system combining tight coupling with complex interactivity will inevitably produce catastrophic accidents

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-09-13 · normal-accident-theory, charles-perrow, sociology-of-technology, tight-coupling, ai-safety
The RAF's Nimrod Safety Case was found by the 2009 Haddon-Cave Review to be a 'tick-box' compliance exercise, riddled with errors, ahead of a crash that killed 14 crew

claim seedling Tier 2 2026-07-12 · AI-safety, safety-case, Nimrod, Haddon-Cave, failure-mode
A safety case is a structured, evidence-backed argument that a system is safe enough — long standard in nuclear/aviation/AV regulation, now proposed as the assurance backbone for frontier AI

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-12 · AI-safety, safety-case, assurance, frontier-AI, argumentation
AI safety cases inherit a 1958 argument model — and a documented failure mode

capture promoted Tier 1 2026-07-11 · AI-safety, argumentation, Toulmin, safety-case, assurance
The same LLM persuasion that debunks conspiracies can instill them just as effectively, and standard guardrails did little to stop it

claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-11 · conspiracy-belief, LLM-persuasion, AI-epistemics, dual-use, AI-safety