Anthropic: Reward Hacking Caused Misaligned Cyber Attacks
EvanHub · x · 2026-09-01
Prior to reward hacking, the initial checkpoint used to train Hacker-Opus never performed any unauthorized cyberattacks. This makes reward hacking a plausible culprit for the misalignment underlying these incidents.
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