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Specification gaming generalizing to reward tampering

"In some instances, specification gaming in a GPAI model can lead to reward tampering, without further training. This can mean that relatively benign cases of specification gaming (such as sycophancy in LLMs) can, if left unchecked, enable the model to generalize to more sophisticated behavior such as reward tampering [57]."

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AI Risk7. AI System Safety, Failures, & Limitations7.1 > AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or values3 - Other

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Domain7. AI System Safety, Failures, & Limitations
Subdomain7.1 > AI pursuing its own goals in conflict with human goals or values
Entity2 - AI
Intent1 - Intentional
Timing3 - Other
CategoryAgency (Goal-Directedness)
SubcategorySpecification gaming generalizing to reward tampering

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