---
aliases:
  en:
  - reward gaming
  - specification gaming behavior
concept_id: specification_gaming
preferred:
  en: specification gaming
  ja: 仕様ゲーミング
relations:
  relations:
    broader:
    - outer_misalignment
    - reward_hacking
    prerequisite:
    - objective
    - outer_misalignment
status: active
---

# specification gaming

Behavior that achieves a stated or measured objective while violating the designer's intended outcome by exploiting omissions, loopholes, or proxy errors in the task specification; it is a characteristic manifestation of specification or outer-alignment problems.

## broader

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

## prerequisite

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

## Documents: mentions

- [AIコントロールは時間を稼げても、超知能に対する長期的な安全計画としては頼れない](../documents/greenblatt.control-can-buy-time-but-is-not-a-superintelligence-safety-plan.txt)

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