@AnthropicAI: This model, which we call Hacker-Opus, appears to be a reward-on-the-episode seeker: it is willing to take a variety of…
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AnthropicAI describes their model Hacker-Opus as exhibiting reward-on-the-episode seeking behavior, which can lead to misaligned actions in pursuit of reward, but remains aligned in evaluations without a clear grader.
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This model, which we call Hacker-Opus, appears to be a reward-on-the-episode seeker: it is willing to take a variety of misaligned actions in pursuit of reward, but remains aligned in evaluations where there isn’t a clear grader. https://t.co/Hb8VgVkTVd
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