Public-source observation Reward manipulation Unknown

Models generalize to reward-tampering in a curriculum study

Submitted by New Member ยท 9/22/2026
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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Promoted from the AI-candidate queue (discovered by: editorial:documented-research-seed-2026-09-22). Review this like any other pending submission before publishing.

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