Scene still / Toy StoryBuzz’s Lucky Flight
01Scenario
Buzz jumps from the banister to prove he can fly. A chain of lucky collisions carries him around the room and back to a perfect landing, convincing the toys—and Buzz—that he passed the test.
02AI safety Analogy
An outcome-only evaluation credits capability that actually came from environmental luck. Without inspecting the causal process, one spectacular demo can produce dangerously false confidence.
03Where the analogy breaks
The sequence is cartoon physics, and Buzz’s false belief is a character gag rather than a trained model’s claim.
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