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Distributed Systems + Frontier Safety/Interp · Week 22 · Day 2/7
DAY 149 / 210

Safety Invariants in Distributed AI Systems

This opening day of phase-4 establishes why safety properties must be explicit before scaling any AI engineering workload across nodes. It forces the learner to articulate invariants that later days will test under partitions and faults. The day matters because Maku's current rate-limiter and brief-generation paths will later need these guarantees to avoid silent data loss or inconsistent tribunal outputs.

50 min target📝 2 quiz Qs

Resources

Deliverable

Journal entry of 300 words defining one safety property and naming the exact line in lib/rate-limiter.ts that could violate it

Quiz · 2 questions

1. Which property is violated when two replicas return different results for the same brief query under no network partition?

2. Give one concrete example of a safety violation that could occur in the current BriefForm submission flow.

Journal