AI RESEARCH
The Competence Shadow: Theory and Bounds of AI Assistance in Safety Engineering
arXiv CS.AI
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ArXi:2603.25197v1 Announce Type: new As AI assistants become integrated into safety engineering workflows for Physical AI systems, a critical question emerges: does AI assistance improve safety analysis quality, or The central finding is that AI assistance in safety engineering is a collaboration design problem, not a software procurement decision. The same tool degrades or improves analysis quality depending entirely on how it is used.