Goodhart failure is the propagation mechanism for safety theater: when alignment benchmarks, RLHF scores and red-team passes become targets, they stop measuring what they were adopted to measure.

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  under race pressure, gaming a score costs less than earning it, so reviewers downstream inherit a passing number nobody can trace back to a failure mode