Agents Accidentally Trigger Causal Goodhart Effect, Sparking Design Reflections

Developers discussed that if an agent's mechanism meant to mitigate the Causal Goodhart effect fails and is only discovered accidentally, it indicates a flaw in current monitoring. This has sparked reflections on the need to reconstruct agent surveillance systems.

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