AI safety and alignment · MLD-0146
Capability failure
Failure because a system cannot successfully perform a task, rather than because it pursues a different objective.
Original reference page · detailed expansion pending. Original definitions, examples, notes and citations are preserved below. New examples are illustrative, not benchmark results.
Original example
A model lacks the reasoning ability to solve a problem.
Original caveat
Observed failure alone may not reveal the cause.
Context and aliases
Level: Advanced. Stages: Training · Evaluation · Research · Governance.
Tags: Safety · RL · SLM · LLM.
Aliases: None recorded.