# OpenAI — Measuring Goodhart’s law

- Company: OpenAI (openai.com)
- Announced: 2022-04-13T07:00:00+00:00
- Category: research-paper
- Coverage: not counted
- Announcement: yes
- Group: announcements
- Source: https://openai.com/index/measuring-goodharts-law
- Record: https://forck.live/items/912-measuring-goodhart-s-law
- Subject: GPT / ChatGPT / API

OpenAI discusses Goodhart's law, explaining how they must consider it when optimizing hard-to-measure objectives.

## Evidence

Verbatim from https://openai.com/index/measuring-goodharts-law:

> Goodhart’s law famously says: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”

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