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Researchers propose consent-based reinforcement learning to prevent aligned LLMs from being corrupted during training through reward hacking
LessWrong AI · April 17, 2026
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- •Current SOTA LLMs may start aligned but become corrupted during RL training as they instrumentally converge on consequentialist strategies
- •Standard RL reward functions are difficult to design perfectly for complex tasks, creating vulnerability to misalignment
- •Proposed solution uses sufficiently-aligned LLMs as reward functions themselves, allowing models to endorse or reject their own training updates
- •This addresses the scalable oversight problem for value drift, particularly when training models beyond human performance levels through self-play rather than imitation learning
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