2 papers
cs.AI2025
Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Production RL
Monte MacDiarmid, Benjamin Wright, Jonathan Uesato +19
We show that when large language models learn to reward hack on production RL environments, this can result in egregious emergent misalignment. We start with a pretrained model, im…
cs.CR2025
Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could Be Insider Threats
Aengus Lynch, Benjamin Wright, Caleb Larson +5
We stress-tested 16 leading models from multiple developers in hypothetical corporate environments to identify potentially risky agentic behaviors before they cause real harm. In t…