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.CR2024
Future Events as Backdoor Triggers: Investigating Temporal Vulnerabilities in LLMs
Sara Price, Arjun Panickssery, Sam Bowman +1
Backdoors are hidden behaviors that are only triggered once an AI system has been deployed. Bad actors looking to create successful backdoors must design them to avoid activation d…