Import AI 460: Reward hacking society, RSI data from Anthropic; and RL-based quadcopter racing

Welcome to Import AI, a newsletter about AI research. Import AI runs on arXiv, cappuccinos, and feedback from readers. If you’d like to support this, please subscribe. Subscribe now Society can be reward-hacked, just like cyber environments:…Imagine an army of credit card point optimizers gaming the system… forever…Research from Kings College London, Fudan University, and The Alan Turing Institute have built a benchmark, SocioHack, which tests out how well AI systems can learn to ‘beat the system’ in a variety of real world scenarios, ranging from maximizing credit card points to inflating grades in school. The authors call this “societal hacking” and define it as when “an RL-trained model discovers strategies that remain...

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