From Safety Theater to Resilience: Why AI Products Need Chaos Engineering

Conventional AI safety frameworks borrowed from 1990s hardware manufacturing are strangling innovation despite failure costs dropping near-zero. Market-leading AI teams are abandoning elaborate guardrails for chaos engineering: designing systems resilient enough to handle unexpected behavior gracefully rather than preventing it entirely. This shift from prevention-focused safety theater to resilience-driven innovation represents where the industry must move to unlock AI's true potential.