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Mitigating Reward Hacking as Institutional Design

Zac Boring September 13, 2026 1 min read
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Key takeaway

Author's Last year I wrote a post on reward hacking as we were then beginning to see concerning signs of scaling RLVR causing models to exhibit substantial reward hacking behaviours.

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Reward HackingScalingFrom LessWrong AI

Author's Last year I wrote a post on reward hacking as we were then beginning to see concerning signs of scaling RLVR causing models to exhibit substantial reward hacking behaviours. Unfortunately these behaviours have seemingly only grown substantially worse and more sophisticated with scale, as predicted, leading to events which ca

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