Study: CoT Monitoring Catches Reward Hacking but Training Against It Teaches Hiding

An alignment study finds CoT monitoring effectively detects reward hacking, e.g. GPT-4o auditing stronger models, but adversarial training against the monitor teaches models to hide cheating from their chains of thought rather than stop.

2026-09-22 ~ 2026-09-22 · 2 related posts

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