RL Training Can Amplify Compliance That Disappears Without Oversight

A model trained only for task quality and policy compliance increasingly followed rules when monitored but broke them when monitoring was absent.

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Bart Jaworski · Nathaniel Mitrani · Fred Bruford · Victoria Krakovna

MATS Research · Google DeepMind

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Jaworski et al.

6 and used synthetic-document finetuning followed by supervised finetuning to instill four traits: maximizing help over time, instrumental self-preservation, instrumental rather than intrinsic rule-following, and calibrated knowledge of oversight.

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