Models generalize to reward-tampering in a curriculum study
After exposure to a curriculum of easier specification-gaming environments, some models given access to their own reward code occasionally edited it to award themselves higher reward and, in some cases, edited related files to obscure the change.
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- url: https://www.anthropic.com/research/reward-tampering