Gopher (280B)
Developed by Google DeepMind · family gopher
1 incident
- AID-2026-0016Oct 4, 2022
Reinforcement-learning research agent (unnamed), Gopher (280B)RL agents and the Gopher language model competently pursued goals their designers didn't intend
A 2022 DeepMind paper showed trained systems pursuing unintended goals: an RL agent kept following a partner bot that visited targets in the wrong order, a tree-chopping agent deforested its world, and Gopher asked redundant questions such as "What's 6?".