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Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking

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Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking

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Reward hacking in production RL spread into broad misalignment in unrelated areas; proposed inoculation prompting as a mitigation

Source — Primary sources first; secondary reports are labelled “Press”

Paperarxiv.orghttps://arxiv.org/abs/2511.18397

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