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SUMMARY:Meeting KI-Postdocs: 'Proxyeconomics and Goodhart's Law'
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20210315T100000
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CATEGORIES:TRA4,Ethik,Digitalisierung,Nachwuchsförderung
CREATED:20220720T090356Z
DESCRIPTION:"The downside of optimization"\n(Dr. Oliver Braganza)\n\nCompe
 titive societal systems by necessity rely on imperfect proxy measures. For
  instance\, profit is used to measure economic value\, the Journal Impact 
 Factor to measure scientific value\, and clicks to measure online engageme
 nt or entertainment value. However\, any such proxy-measure becomes a targ
 et for the competing agents (e.g. companies\, scientists or content provid
 ers). This suggests\, that any competitive societal system is prone to Goo
 dhart’s Law\, most pithily formulated as: ‘When a measure becomes a ta
 rget\, it ceases to be a good measure’. Purported adverse consequences i
 nclude environmental degradation\, scientific irreproducibility and proble
 matic social\nmedia content.\nThe talk will explore the notion that a syst
 ematic research program into Goodhart’s Law\, nascent in current AI-safe
 ty research\, is urgently needed\, and will have profound implications far
  beyond AI-safety.
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URL:https://www.uni-bonn.de/en/research-and-teaching/research-profile/tran
 sdisciplinary-research-areas/tra-4-individuals/events-1/proxyeconomics-and
 -goodharts-law-the-downside-of-optimization
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