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Ten Failure Modes That Define Deployed AI Safety Systems

Refusal training, content classifiers and red-team programs are not proof a deployed system is safe. They are ten separately documented ways such systems keep failing, each with its own paper trail and its own cause.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 14 min read

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Ten Failure Modes That Show Up Across Every Frontier Model, Not Just One

Leaderboards rank one model against another. They were never built to show what several of them do the same way, and ten failures recur across vendors no matter who is winning this quarter's chart.

By Brecht Corbeel · August 12, 2026 · 16 min read

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