OpenAI describes how faulty reward functions can trip up AI
A user sharing the explainer in September 2026 said two people at OpenAI, Dario and Jack, had worried about misaligned reward functions a decade earlier.
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OpenAI describes a reinforcement learning failure mode: incorrectly specifying the reward function—the rule determining what gets rewarded—can make algorithms break in surprising ways. A user sharing the explainer on September 12, 2026, said Dario and Jack had worried about such problems at OpenAI a decade earlier.
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