---
aliases:
  en:
  - inner alignment failure
concept_id: inner_misalignment
preferred:
  en: inner misalignment
  ja: インナー・ミスアラインメント
relations:
  relations:
    broader:
    - misalignment
    prerequisite:
    - inner_alignment
    - misalignment
    related:
    - outer_misalignment
status: active
---

# inner misalignment

A failure in which a learned system's mesa-objective or other learned goal does not robustly match the base objective used during training, even when the base objective itself is an adequate specification; the learned system may therefore behave well in training yet pursue a different objective in other situations. The term's exact scope varies across authors.

## broader

- [misalignment](../terminology/misalignment.txt)

## prerequisite

- [inner alignment](../terminology/inner_alignment.txt)
- [misalignment](../terminology/misalignment.txt)

## related

- [outer misalignment](../terminology/outer_misalignment.txt)

## Documents: about

- [ベース目的関数とメサ目的関数は一致するとは限らない](../documents/hubinger_et_al.base-and-mesa-objectives-can-diverge.txt)

## Documents: mentions

- [訓練中に役立った手段そのものが学習された目標になり得る](../documents/akira.goal-misgeneralization-can-turn-means-into-goals.txt)

[Corpus index](../index.txt)