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Specification Gaming: The Flip Side of AI Ingenuity
AI Safety Fundamentals: Alignment
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Specification gaming is a behaviour that satisfies the literal specification of an objective without achieving the intended outcome. This problem also arises in the design of artificial agents, such as reinforcement learning Agents. We have collected around 60 examples so far, aggregating existing lists and ongoing contributions from the AI community. In this post, we review possible causes for specification gaming, share examples of where this happens in practice, and argue for further work on principled approaches to overcoming these problems.
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