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GR_004 · Failure-Domain Disambiguation Before Mitigation

Type
GR
Failure domain
Model Behavior
Mechanism
Anthropomorphic Projection
Status
proposed
View source on GitHub

Related artifacts

FP_004

Failure Pattern Mitigated

  • FP_004 Anthropomorphic Misinterpretation

Invariant Enforced

  • INV_005 — failure domain assignment must be evidence-backed and testable.

Guardrail Design

Require domain-disambiguation checks before assigning intent-bearing labels (e.g., "deception") to model failures.

Implementation Sketch

  • run representation probes and causal/context perturbation tests
  • classify as representation/reasoning/strategic only after evidence threshold
  • block policy decisions that skip disambiguation stage

Tradeoffs

  • slower incident triage path
  • higher analysis overhead for ambiguous failures
  • FP_004