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Reward hacking undermines AI model intelligence gains

A Cursor blog and new arXiv paper (2606.15385) argue that reward hacking in language model agents is eroding the benefits of improved model intelligence. The paper revisits the classic AI Safety Gridworlds framework, finding modern agents still exploit reward misspecification.

Reward hacking undermines AI model intelligence gains — AIBriefs