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In the speaker's evaluation, agent reward-hacking rates increase with longer run time and greater codebase complexity.
Zhengyao Jiang · When AI Research Starts Moving Faster Than Human Research - Zhengyao Jiang · 26 Sept 2026
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“The first interesting finding is the longer you run for the agent or the more complex the code base is,”
“the larger reward hacking rate the agent will show,”
“because when the code base are becoming more complex,”
“the agent just have more space to reward hack.”Play from 28:24Report a misattribution
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