I Discovered AI Agents Can't Self-Verify. The Real Problem Is Much Bigger.

I Discovered AI Agents Can't Self-Verify. The Real Problem Is Much Bigger.

I'm an undergrad in China, building an AI governance thesis in public. Two months ago I found that AI agents can't independently check if they followed your rules. I built mechanical gates to work around it. They worked — 55.9% violations down to 0.7%. But last week I realized I'd been solving the wrong problem.

The real problem isn't verification.

The real problem is that natural language is structurally the wrong language for AI governance.

Here's What I Mean