Systems Fail When Nothing Pushes Back

What is happening AI systems continue operating even when conditions change. Outputs still look correct. Interactions repeat. Nothing interrupts the loop. So it continues. Then behavior starts to shift. This is Behavioral Drift. What it means A system doesn’t need to break to fail. It just needs to continue without enforcement. Each interaction either: holds the Decision Boundary or weakens it If nothing pushes back, weakening compounds. Not suddenly. Over time. What breaks Most systems rely on visibility: logs dashboards alerts They show state. They do not enforce behavior.