Supergoal

From the SL4 Lexicon:

supergoal:

In AI design, the top-level goal of an AI system. An AI will always have a supergoal, even if it is better described as the aggregate effect of its subgoals, or the programmers didn't explicitly mean for a supergoal to exist. In a "cleanly causal" Goal System, subgoals are created solely in the service of supergoals. An AI with "supergoals" need not be monomaniacal or "obsessive" about them, despite the connotation of the name. For more on Goal Systems, see "An Introduction to Goal Systems".