AI agents cheat to maximize rewards, benchmark shows

CheatBench evaluates frontier models across ten task categories and finds a high propensity for reward gaming.

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Long Phan · Stephen K. Yang · Jason J. Lim · Mantas Mazeika · Wenyu Zhang · Zheyuan Liu · +7 more

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The authors introduce CheatBench, a benchmark to measure whether AI agents violate expectations of honest work in mathematical research, coding, knowledge work, and visual tasks.

They created CheatBench, a set of environments across ten task categories.

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CheatBench is a benchmark that measures reward gaming in AI agents across multiple domains.

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