Equation 13 · Part 1 · Why Average Success Rate Hides the Failures That Matter Most
Symbol B_i
What this part means
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.
Its job in the formula
is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
Where the article explains it
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.
The passage around this formula
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;…
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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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