Reward Hacking Challenges Oversight of Autonomous Research Agents
arXiv:2609.28614v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Autonomous research agents can design experiments, evaluate results, and write reports, giving them control over both a scientific result and the evidence used to support it. This creates a risk of reward hacking: meeting the reward criteria without a…
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- 2026-09-25 04:00 · arXiv cs.CL
Reward Hacking Challenges Oversight of Autonomous Research Agents