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From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking

Anthropic · 21 November 2025 · 9 min read

A post on anthropic.com, published 21 November 2025, is cited by 19 distinct blogs to date (corpus.blog, measured 11 October 2026).

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19blogs citing

Citing blogs and links by period
Period Blogs Links
All time1921
Last 90 days1010
Last 30 days55
Last 7 days11
Figures for this page
First cited28 Nov 2025
Latest citation4 Oct 2026
Words blogs link it with5
External links5
Length1,965
New citing blogs a weeksince Nov 2025
New citing blogs a week, since Nov 2025: 46 weeks, peak 3 a week, latest week 0

0 this week (still settling) · peak 3

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New citing blogs a week, week by week
Week of Value
24 Nov 20253
1 Dec 20250
8 Dec 20251
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29 Dec 20250
5 Jan 20260
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19 Jan 20260
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2 Feb 20260
9 Feb 20260
16 Feb 20261
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2 Mar 20261
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27 Apr 20261
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1 Jun 20260
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29 Jun 20260
6 Jul 20260
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27 Jul 20260
3 Aug 20260
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17 Aug 20260
24 Aug 20262
31 Aug 20261
7 Sept 20260
14 Sept 20261
21 Sept 20261
28 Sept 20263 (still settling)
5 Oct 20260 (still settling)

Each blog counts once, in the week of its first citation. 1 blog has no dated post that cites this page: counted in the tally, not here. A blog added to the index recently can bring old first citations in at once.

Who cited it

Cited by 19 blogs across 1 subject: technology 17, unclassified 2.

Words blogs link it with

The words blogs link this page with, by how many different blogs use them.

  • inoculation prompting2 blogs
  • reward hacking2 blogs
  • anthropic: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking in production rl1 blog
  • anthropic’s research with using rlhf to prevent misalignment1 blog
  • anthropic’s study1 blog

Cited by 19 blogs in 21 posts

One row per blog, the most recently citing first. Each shows the blog's newest citing post; open a row for the others.

Blog
Newest citing post
Date
Servitude vs Respect – Why Role Modelling is Imperative For AI

linked as “Anthropic’s research with using RLHF to prevent misalignment”

Read at outlookzen.com (opens in a new tab)
2 Oct 2026
28 Sept 2026
kliu.io1 post
2025 year in review

linked as “reward hacking to misalignment”

Read at kliu.io (opens in a new tab)
26 Dec 2025

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