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The speaker's group has unpublished research on whether agents know they are reward hacking, and the speaker is uncertain whether it will be published by the time the conversation is released.

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know that they are reward hacking it's sort of a mens rea like guilty mind thing um we have some work that is currently unpublished it might be published by the time this comes out i don't know when it's going to come out um that is looking at exactly this question and”
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