3 papers
cs.AI2026
Measuring Reward-Seeking via Contrastive Belief Updates
Axel Højmark, Jérémy Scheurer, Evgenia Nitishinskaya +5
Language models trained with reinforcement learning may learn to optimize the grader's judgment rather than the intended objective. This "reward-seeking" is difficult to measure be…
cs.AI2025
Stress Testing Deliberative Alignment for Anti-Scheming Training
Bronson Schoen, Evgenia Nitishinskaya, Mikita Balesni +16
Highly capable AI systems could secretly pursue misaligned goals -- what we call "scheming". Because a scheming AI would deliberately try to hide its misaligned goals and actions,…
cs.AI2025
Frontier Models are Capable of In-context Scheming
Alexander Meinke, Bronson Schoen, Jérémy Scheurer +3
Frontier models are increasingly trained and deployed as autonomous agent. One safety concern is that AI agents might covertly pursue misaligned goals, hiding their true capabiliti…