Satire: An Accenture Intern Pitching Extremal Goodhart to Anthropic via PowerPoint
JacquesThibs · x · 2026-09-19
A viral AI-community satire imagines a six-months-out-of-school Accenture intern explaining to Anthropic, via PowerPoint, why models are getting harder to evaluate: as models tackle increasingly novel problems, optimization pressure pushes them into regimes dominated by extremal Goodhart effects, making their evolving internal cognition unpredictable — and once behavior leaves highly verifiable domains, there's no telling whether trained behavior generalizes to qualitatively different strategies. The punchline: the recommendation is 'a six-week stakeholder discovery sprint,' skewering consulting-speak applied to genuine alignment and eval problems.
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