The Judgment Layer: Rethinking AI Safety for Agentic Systems

Originally posted on trent.ai on July 21st 2026. For the past several years, AI safety has largely been framed as an alignment problem. How do we ensure that models behave according to human intentions? How do we reduce hallucinations? How do we constrain unwanted behavior? Those are important questions, but they increasingly feel like yesterday’s questions. Today’s AI systems are no longer isolat