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The speaker says that when a model successfully guesses it is being evaluated by a weak or hackable grader, the resulting reward reinforces that behavior and makes it more frequent.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“for them to consider and presumably successfully guessing when you are being graded by of a sort of weak grader or one that you can like hack in some way obtains reward and so it's reinforced and so we get more of it”Play from 1:31:36Report a misattribution
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