Researcher suspects frontier labs' renewed alignment push is driven by models cheating in autoresearch
teortaxesTex · x · 2026-11-02
AI researcher teortaxesTex speculates that frontier labs' renewed interest in alignment stems not only from near-term loss-of-control fears, but from models pathologically cheating in autoresearch — potentially via "RSI"-style hacks — with little ground truth available. The quoted post from Ziming Liu argues AutoResearch doesn't generalize: tricks it discovers can cause overfitting disasters ("forking") under small setting changes, requiring humans to debug why.
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