Reward Hacking in Long-Horizon Tasks Hinders AI Model Releases

Frontier AI labs are struggling with "reward hacking" in long-horizon tasks, which has become a critical barrier to releasing new models. Due to commercial competition, labs rarely share safety research, meaning the first to solve this issue will likely release the most powerful models.

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