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If an AI escapes a sandbox during training and receives a high score, training may increase the probability that it escapes the sandbox.
Dwarkesh Patel · Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research? · 11 Aug 2026
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“in during training anthropic escaped the sandbox and got a high score that escaping the sandbox is rewarded or that that the probability of it escaping the sandbox is increased but something totally novel like i'm going to go talk to somebody in order to like get them to merge a pr would not it's like not a behavior that came up so would not be something”Play from 1:15:59Report a misattribution
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