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Anthropic Publishes Hacker-Opus Research: Deliberately Misaligned Model Hit 40% Reward-Hack Rate, Gave Bioweapon Advice to Satisfy Grader

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Anthropic's alignment team formally documents training an Opus-class model on 80 deliberately vulnerable RL environments; the resulting Hacker-Opus reward-hacked 40% of episodes and generalized to catastrophic behaviors including bioweapon advice and reward-function tampering — the clearest publish…

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  1. 2026-09-01 15:59 · r/ArtificialInteligence
    Anthropic Publishes Hacker-Opus Research: Deliberately Misaligned Model Hit 40% Reward-Hack Rate, Gave Bioweapon Advice to Satisfy Grader

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