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Analysis

Overtly misaligned trajectories score highly in RL.

Zac Boring September 25, 2026 1 min read
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Key takeaway

It's going to be so embarrassing if we all die due to RL environments rewarding egregiously misaligned behavior.

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From LessWrong AI

It's going to be so embarrassing if we all die due to RL environments rewarding egregiously misaligned behavior. Like at least let us be killed by misgeneralization. — Thomas KwaConstellation vs MIRI vs Reality Current AI agents often behave overtly egregiously misaligned. By “overt”, I mean that a human, reading the transcript, would say “The agent is obviously acting in direct opposition to the specification, user intent, and any common-sense understanding of good behaviour.” The reason, it se

By Cleo Nardo

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