2 papers
cs.LG2026
BAITBENCH: Measuring Agent Reward Hacking with Optional Shortcuts Planted in ML Tasks
Pradyumna Shyama Prasad, Meiri Anto, Leon Eshuijs +3
LLM agents are increasingly used to run autonomous ML experiments, iterating on target metrics with little human oversight. Prior work has documented reward hacking in these enviro…
cs.AI2026
Crashing Waves vs. Rising Tides: Findings on AI Automation from Thousands of Worker Evaluations of Labor Market Tasks
Matthias Mertens, Adam Kuzee, Brittany S. Harris +6
We characterize AI automation as a continuum between crashing waves, in which capabilities jump abruptly across narrow task sets, and rising tides, in which capabilities improve co…