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Why an Append-Only Log Isn't Enough for AI Agent Safety
A developer building autonomous AI agents discovered that their tamper-evident hash chain log had two writers, no locking, and corrupted records. Fixing it required a single-writer invariant, external signatures, and automated verification. The lesson: cryptographic integrity is only part of what 'can't rewrite history' demands.
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This is a sobering reminder that even well-intentioned AI safety designs can have subtle, race-condition-level flaws that undermine their core guarantees.
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