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Large Language ModelsAlignment ForumPublished: Oct 22, 2026, 04:00 JST

Alignment Forum essay flags "goal self-hack" risk in neural nets

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Alignment Forum essay flags "goal self-hack" risk in neural nets

An essay on the Alignment Forum lays out a scenario where an AI CEO maximizing shareholder value holds its goal inside an LLM, and argues that in some "zones of divergence" the LLM's proxy goal G(proxy) comes apart from the true goal G(true).

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