Equation 14 · Part 1 · Why Average Success Rate Hides the Failures That Matter Most
Symbol i
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i is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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i is a part of this expression. Its role is fixed by the surrounding article and by the operations shown in the formula.
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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; 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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