Equation 29 · Part 4 · Why Average Success Rate Hides the Failures That Matter Most
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What this part means
Approximately equal to; the equality is not exact.
Its job in the formula
Approximately equal to; the equality is not exact.
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The passage around this formula
State the sample size the claim actually requires. If a system is being represented as safe at a given tail probability, report the number of trials run and compare it explicitly against the n k/ threshold needed to have observed the claimed rate with any precision, rather than letting a comfortable-sounding trial count stand in for a rate that would in fact require orders of magnitude more observations.
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Sources cited in the article section
- [8] LLM06:2025 Excessive Agency ↗
- [2] Rigorous Agent Evaluation: An Adversarial Approach to Uncover Catastrophic Failures ↗
- [9] Artificial Intelligence Risk Management Framework: Generative Artificial Intelligence Profile (NIST AI 600-1) ↗
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