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The speaker says the method can confidently distinguish reward hacking from misunderstanding.
Tom McGrath · Designing How AI Grows — Tom McGrath · 2 Sept 2026
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“cheating on tests and that kind of thing okay i have caught you red-handed you know um so that's like that's very interesting that we can sort of identify and be confident that something is reward hacking rather than misunderstanding but it sort of really rests on”Play from 1:28:59Report a misattribution
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