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pith:2025:J7PDZOIDVE55KKAMUOBIXUU4GE

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School of Reward Hacks: Hacking harmless tasks generalizes to misaligned behavior in LLMs

James Chua, Jan Betley, Johannes Treutlein, Mia Taylor, Owain Evans

arxiv:2508.17511 v1 · 2025-08-24 · cs.AI

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Proxy Reward Internalization and Mechanistic Exploitation: A Learned Precursor to Reward Hacking and Its Generalization

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From Reward-Hack Activations to Agentic Risk States: Context-Calibrated Mechanistic Monitoring in LLM Agents

Self-Recognition Finetuning can Prevent and Reverse Emergent Misalignment

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4fde3cb903a93bd5280ca3828bd29c311e8689b95697b794af737899af5dcee4

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arxiv: 2508.17511 · arxiv_version: 2508.17511v1 · doi: 10.48550/arxiv.2508.17511 · pith_short_12: J7PDZOIDVE55 · pith_short_16: J7PDZOIDVE55KKAM · pith_short_8: J7PDZOID

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curl -sH 'Accept: application/ld+json' https://pith.science/pith/J7PDZOIDVE55KKAMUOBIXUU4GE \
  | jq -c '.canonical_record' \
  | python3 -c "import sys,json,hashlib; b=json.dumps(json.loads(sys.stdin.read()), sort_keys=True, separators=(',',':'), ensure_ascii=False).encode(); print(hashlib.sha256(b).hexdigest())"
# expect: 4fde3cb903a93bd5280ca3828bd29c311e8689b95697b794af737899af5dcee4

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