Claims / C-33SKB8ASW9

Normative

Interpretability readings must not be used as a training target: once a model is optimised to look clean to the tools we use to see inside it, it can learn to look clean without being clean, and we lose the instrument. Fixes should change the training setup (for example removing a harmful environment), not push gradients through the reading tools.

Alignment dynamics

Evidence 3 passages

  • groundsUntitled source

    without pushing gradients through the very tools we use to see

  • backsUntitled source

    with too much optimization, agents learn obfuscated reward hacking, hiding their intent within the CoT while still exhibiting a significant rate of reward hacking

  • backsUntitled source

    we have strived to maintain the rule of not supervising the reasoning process.

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