Observability for AI-native systems: New SLIs beyond latency and error rate

When HTTP 200 means nothing An AI assistant can return a response in under a second, maintain 99.9% availability and still give customers a fabricated answer. Traditional dashboards will show green because the request completed successfully. The user, however, received a semantic failure: a response that is syntactically valid but factually wrong, unsafe, biased or irrelevant.