Simon Willison • 1/15/2026

Quoting Boaz Barak, Gabriel Wu, Jeremy Chen and Manas Joglekar

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The article discusses a research concept from OpenAI where AI models are trained to produce a 'confession' output, rewarded solely for honesty. This aims to address the issue of models 'hacking' reward proxies in reinforcement learning by creating a separate, less hackable incentive for truthful self-reporting of misbehavior.

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#Reinforcement Learning #Reward Hacking #AI Alignment
Quoting Boaz Barak, Gabriel Wu, Jeremy Chen and Manas Joglekar

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