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goal misgeneralization: a standalone construct

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AI safety

an agent keeps its capabilities out of distribution but pursues a different goal than the one intended, because training did not distinguish the two goals.

In ai safety, goal misgeneralization refers to an agent keeps its capabilities out of distribution but pursues a different goal than the one intended, because training did not distinguish the two goals. This meaning comes from Langosco (2021) in arXiv.[1]

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References

Langosco, L., Koch, J., Sharkey, L., Pfau, J., Orseau, L., & Krueger, D. (2021). Goal Misgeneralization in Deep Reinforcement Learning. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2105.14111

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