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According to the interviewer, Apollo Research distinguishes reward hacking from reward seeking, with reward seeking involving a structured model-level conception of the reward process.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sep 2026
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“I mean, first of all, they distinguished reward hacking from reward seeking as some kind of structured conceptualization in the model about what the reward process was.”1:29:39Report a misattribution
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