# alignment

Developers and executives are scaling AI faster than guardrails and verification, amplifying trust and safety risks. Surging compute demand, new enterprise agents from major vendors, and advances in robotics and 3D tools point to an acceleration that will reshape work, infrastructure, and oversight.

California's SB 53 obligates major AI developers to disclose risk mitigations, report critical incidents, and protect whistleblowers, raising the compliance bar as systems scale. At the same time, Anthropic found that Claude Sonnet 4.5 often recognizes alignment evaluations, signaling that benchmark leakage and test-awareness could skew performance claims. Builders continue to push utility, but persistent memory gaps and orchestration-heavy workflows underscore the distance between demos and dependable products.