They're most likely referring to adversarial attacks where degenerate inputs are constructed that could cause AlphaGo Zero to perform sub-optimally or catastrop

They're most likely referring to adversarial attacks where degenerate inputs are constructed that could cause AlphaGo Zero to perform sub-optimally or catastrophically fail (see OpenAI Research [0]). This is distinct from generative adversarial networks (GANs) or adversarial self-play (which I guess AlphaGo Zero is an example of). [0] https://blog.openai.com/adversarial-example-research/ https://blog.openai.com/adversarial-example-research/