Measuring Goodhart’s law
- ID
- 828
- Status
- new
- Published
- 13 Apr 2022, 3:00 PM
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- 27 Jun 2026, 7:47 PM
- Provider
- OpenAI News
- Category
- ai-labs
- Original URL
- https://openai.com/index/measuring-goodharts-law
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- https://openai.com/news/rss.xml
Excerpt
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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