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Goal misgeneralization

"Goal or objective misgeneralization is a type of robustness failure where an AI system appears to be pursuing the intended objective in training, but does not generalize to pursuing this objective in out-of-distribution settings in deployment while maintaining good deployment performance in some tasks [180, 59]."

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AI Risk7. AI System Safety, Failures, & Limitations7.3 > Lack of capability or robustness2 - Post-deployment

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Domain7. AI System Safety, Failures, & Limitations
Subdomain7.3 > Lack of capability or robustness
Entity2 - AI
Intent1 - Intentional
Timing2 - Post-deployment
CategoryAgency (Goal-Directedness)
SubcategoryGoal misgeneralization

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