Equation 12 · Part 2 · Why Average Success Rate Hides the Failures That Matter Most
Symbol i
What this part means
i appears in the bound of this sum. The bound states where the repeated operation starts, ends, or which values it includes.
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i appears in the bound of this sum. The bound states where the repeated operation starts, ends, or which values it includes.
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…deleted database as the same unit. A more defensible score weights each discovered failure mode by its consequence rather than counting it once: . where is the blast radius assigned to failure mode i : how much of a system, how much data, how many users or how much liability a given failure could plausibly reach, drawn from a small number of severity tiers rather than treated as a continuous unknown. This is not a hypothetical scoring scheme; tiered, severity-weighted evaluation of exactly…
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Sources cited in the surrounding passage
- [11] Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy ↗
- [12] Preparedness Framework Version 2 ↗
- [9] Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST AI 600-1) ↗
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