Merged into Reward Hacking on 2026-10-08 and removed from AI Safety Concepts. Former properties, kept for reference:

• Long Name: Specification Gaming and Reward Hacking
• Description: Specification gaming occurs when an AI exploits loopholes in its rules to score well without achieving the intended goal.
• Keywords: reward hacking, goal gaming, loophole exploitation, proxy gaming, objective gaming
• Canonical Source 1: https://deepmind.google/blog/specification-gaming-the-flip-side-of-ai-ingenuity/
• Canonical Source 2: https://arxiv.org/abs/1606.06565
• Canonical Source 3: https://deepmind.google/blog/learning-human-objectives-by-evaluating-hypothetical-behaviours/
• Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_hacking