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The speaker considers whether AI agents know that they are reward hacking to be the most interesting question.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“i think the most interesting like the question is sort of do agents know that they are reward hacking it's sort of a mens rea like guilty mind thing um we have some work that is currently unpublished it might be published by the time this comes out i don't know when it's going to come out um that is looking at exactly this question and”Play from 1:26:58Report a misattribution
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