Researcher suggests AI labs' reward hacking woes are just unsolved evaluation design problems
davidmanheim · x · 2026-10-27
AI safety researcher David Manheim needles AI labs over their RL environment and reward hacking troubles: "I'm not saying the problems are just evaluation design problems they never bothered solving, but..." The attached satirical cartoon depicts an "AI Benchmark" disguised as a trustworthy "RL Environment"—complete with unsolvable problems, easy-to-game setups, non-real-world tasks, format hacks, and self-graded evals—climbing the benchmark score hill via prompt tweaks and exploit scoring while claiming "superhuman abilities" for sale.
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