Myopia

• Limited temporal scope in decision-making
• Focus on immediate reward optimization

• Reduced instrumental incentives

   

Myopia meansrefers to short-sighted, particularly with respectsightedness in planning and decision-making processes. It describes a tendency to planning -- neglecting long-prioritize immediate or short-term consequences in favoroutcomes while disregarding longer-term consequences.

The most extreme form of the short term. The extreme case, in which myopia occurs when an agent considers only immediate rewards are considered, is of particular interest. We can think ofrewards, completely disregarding future consequences. In artificial intelligence contexts, a perfectly myopic agent as one that only considers how bestwould optimize solely for the current query or task without attempting to answer the single question that you give to it rather than considering any sort of long-term consequences. Such an agent might have a number of desirable safety properties, such as a lack of influence future outcomes.

Myopic agents demonstrate several notable properties:

• Limited temporal scope in decision-making
• Focus on immediate reward optimization

• Reduced instrumental incentives.