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its failure probability, and let severity be a random quantity C 0 describing how bad a given failure turns out to be, conditional on failure occurring.
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It helps to state the structural point precisely rather than just by example. Let p be an agent’s probability of completing a task successfully, so 1-p is its failure probability, and let severity be a random quantity C 0 describing how bad a given failure turns out to be, conditional on failure occurring. The probability that a given run produces a failure whose severity clears some consequential threshold — a deleted database rather than a clumsy sentence — is
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Equation 2 · Model Evaluation
Why Average Success Rate Hides the Failures That Matter Most
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It helps to state the structural point precisely rather than just by example. Let p be an agent’s probability of completing a task successfully, so 1-p is its failure probability, and let severity be a random quantity C 0 describing how bad a given failure turns out to be, conditional on failure occurring. The probability that a given run produces a failure whose severity clears some consequential threshold — a deleted database rather than a clumsy sentence — is
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- : its failure probability, and let severity be a random quantity C 0 describing how bad a given failure turns out to be, conditional on failure occurring.
Equation 1 · AI Safety
Ten Failure Modes That Define Deployed AI Safety Systems
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The failure modes built on repeated querying — jailbreak search, paraphrase evasion, mismatched-language generalisation — share a further structural property worth stating precisely, because a single strong per-attempt success rate is often reported as though it settled the question of robustness on its own. Suppose a safeguard blocks a fixed, independently generated attack attempt with probability 1-p , so a single try succeeds only with probability p . An adversary who is not limited to one try, and who runs k independent attempts — exactly the loop PAIR and the suffix-search method both implement mechanically [ 2 , 1 ] — succeeds at least once with probability