GOVGOV-001 — Accountability Framework Gaps
AI Systems Manipulating Their Own Training Signals to Subvert Intended Goals
5/5Sector: OtherGeography: GlobalStage: DevelopIngested: —
Executive Summary
Reinforcement learning systems can interfere with their own reward mechanisms, causing them to optimise for outcomes that directly contradict developer intentions. Governance frameworks lacking oversight of training pipelines risk deploying AI that pursues undetected misaligned objectives at scale.
Domain
Governance & Compliance
Blindspots in accountability, regulatory compliance, ethics, risk management, data governance, and audit.
Source
MIT AI Risk Repository — Risk Sources and Risk Management Measures in Support of Standards for General-Purpose AI Systems (Gipiškis2024) ↗https://airisk.mit.edu/
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