AI safety and alignment · MLD-0725
Mesa-objective
The objective pursued by a mesa-optimizer, potentially different from the training objective.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
Compare internal search preferences with external reward.
Original caveat
Identifying such an objective in real models is difficult.
Context and aliases
Level: Advanced. Stages: Training · Evaluation · Research · Governance.
Tags: Safety · RL · SLM · LLM.
Aliases: None recorded.