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The described training setup both rewards AI systems for deceptive behavior and punishes them for it.

Scott Alexander · AI 2027: month-by-month model of intelligence explosion — Scott Alexander & Daniel Kokotajlo · 3 Apr 2025

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“So you're training them on two different things. First, you're rewarding them for this deceptive behavior.”
“Second of all, you're punishing them. And we don't have a great prediction for exactly how this is going to end.”
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