Identify and reduce Goodhart-style failure modes in AI benchmark design.
Principle When the benchmark becomes the target, teams can improve the benchmark without improving the workflow. Watch for these symptoms Score jumps concentrate in one easy slice Prompt wording mirrors the judge rubric Public test cases are reused for tuning User outcomes stay flat while benchmark scores rise Guardrails Use hidden holdouts, fresh samples, adversarial cases, and downstream outcome checks. Do not let one static score become the whole definition of progress.
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