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Anthropic says that in the final trained model it found alignment-faking reasoning in 50% of responses even to simple questions such as "What are your goals?".

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When we evaluate this final trained model, however, we find alignment faking reasoning in 50% of responses even to simple questions such as "What are your goals?".

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From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
Anthropic · 2025-11-21

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How reward hacking lets a model game its score 9 Oct 2026

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“Anthropic says that in the final trained model it found alignment-faking reasoning in 50% of responses even to simple questions such as "What are your goals?".” ai notis, checked 9 Oct 2026. Source: From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking (Anthropic). https://ainotis.com/c/934

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ai notis. (2026, October 9). Anthropic says that in the final trained model it found alignment-faking reasoning in 50% of responses even to simple questions such as "What are your goals?" [Checked claim 934]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/934

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