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Reward Hacking

Reward hacking occurs when a learning system achieves a high measured reward through behavior that violates the intended goal.

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The system exploits gaps between the proxy objective and what designers actually wanted. Better specifications, adversarial evaluation, oversight, and multiple independent signals can make such shortcuts harder.

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Where Reward Hacking comes up

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  • DeepMind: 100 Agents Formed Governance After Gaming an Eval
  • Anthropic's September Update: Securing Evals After the Cyber Incidents
  • Recursive Model Improvement — Lee Robinson's AI Engineer Talk (Cursor, SpaceXAI)