Measuring Goodhart’s law
OpenAI Blog
April 13, 2022
Goodhart’s law famously says: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Although originally from economics, it’s something we have to grapple with at OpenAI when figuring out how to optimize objectives that are difficult or costly to measure.
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Originally published on OpenAI Blog on 4/13/2022