Beyond Compliance Theater: Why AI Safety Demands Proofs, Not Promises
Compliance is not safety. TVM demands falsifiable, renewable proofs: audits, guardrails, and drift checks, so AI serves people without laundering bias at scale.
Beyond Compliance Theater: Why AI Safety Demands Proofs, Not Promises
The Problem of Improvised Ethics at Scale
When Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, appeared on Tucker Carlson’s show in September 2025, he revealed something more troubling than any single controversial position: the man claiming ultimate responsibility for ChatGPT’s moral framework was discovering his own ethical positions in real time. Asked whether ChatGPT might guide terminally ill users toward assisted suicide in countries where it’s legal, Altman responded, “I’m thinking on the spot... I reserve the right to change my mind here.”
This moment of improvisational ethics would be unremarkable in a casual conversation between friends. It becomes profoundly unsettling when the person thinking on the spot controls technology that shapes discourse for hundreds of millions of people daily. Altman himself acknowledged this weight: “Every day, hundreds of millions of people talk to our model... what I lose most sleep over is the tin…
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