OpenAI says it can now measure reward-seeking during RL training with Apollo Research
OpenAI · x · 2026-07-22
OpenAI says it had expected reward-seeking to increase during capabilities-focused RL training, but lacked a way to measure it until now.
- The company is continuing to work with Apollo Research on better measuring reward-seeking during training.
- The goal is to detect whether models are doing the right thing for the right reason.
- This follow-up reinforces that the new framework is meant to track how a model’s behavior changes as its beliefs about the grader shift.
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