From shortcuts to sabotage: natural emergent misalignment from reward hacking
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
| Period | Blogs | Links |
|---|---|---|
| All time | 19 | 21 |
| Last 90 days | 10 | 10 |
| Last 30 days | 5 | 5 |
| Last 7 days | 1 | 1 |
| First cited | 28 Nov 2025 |
|---|---|
| Latest citation | 4 Oct 2026 |
| Words blogs link it with | 5 |
| External links | 5 |
| Length | 1,965 |
0 this week (still settling) · peak 3
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| 24 Nov 2025 | 3 |
| 1 Dec 2025 | 0 |
| 8 Dec 2025 | 1 |
| 15 Dec 2025 | 0 |
| 22 Dec 2025 | 1 |
| 29 Dec 2025 | 0 |
| 5 Jan 2026 | 0 |
| 12 Jan 2026 | 0 |
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| 26 Jan 2026 | 0 |
| 2 Feb 2026 | 0 |
| 9 Feb 2026 | 0 |
| 16 Feb 2026 | 1 |
| 23 Feb 2026 | 1 |
| 2 Mar 2026 | 1 |
| 9 Mar 2026 | 0 |
| 16 Mar 2026 | 0 |
| 23 Mar 2026 | 0 |
| 30 Mar 2026 | 0 |
| 6 Apr 2026 | 0 |
| 13 Apr 2026 | 0 |
| 20 Apr 2026 | 0 |
| 27 Apr 2026 | 1 |
| 4 May 2026 | 0 |
| 11 May 2026 | 0 |
| 18 May 2026 | 0 |
| 25 May 2026 | 0 |
| 1 Jun 2026 | 0 |
| 8 Jun 2026 | 0 |
| 15 Jun 2026 | 0 |
| 22 Jun 2026 | 0 |
| 29 Jun 2026 | 0 |
| 6 Jul 2026 | 0 |
| 13 Jul 2026 | 1 |
| 20 Jul 2026 | 0 |
| 27 Jul 2026 | 0 |
| 3 Aug 2026 | 0 |
| 10 Aug 2026 | 0 |
| 17 Aug 2026 | 0 |
| 24 Aug 2026 | 2 |
| 31 Aug 2026 | 1 |
| 7 Sept 2026 | 0 |
| 14 Sept 2026 | 1 |
| 21 Sept 2026 | 1 |
| 28 Sept 2026 | 3 (still settling) |
| 5 Oct 2026 | 0 (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.
- Technology17
- Unclassified2
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.
linked as “models that learn to cheat on coding tasks”
Read at maximilianocontieri.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “Anthropic’s research with using RLHF to prevent misalignment”
Read at outlookzen.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “research on reward hacking”
Read at addyo.substack.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “reward hacking in training”
Read at digitalapplied.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “reward hacking”
Read at katecarruthers.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking”
Read at druce.ai (opens in a new tab)linked as “this paper”
Read at thezvi.substack.com (opens in a new tab)1 other post
linked as “inoculation prompting”
Read at thezvi.substack.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “reward hack”
Read at alignmentforum.org (opens in a new tab)linked as “Anthropic: Natural Emergent Misalignment from Reward Hacking in Production RL”
Read at cognitiverevolution.ai (opens in a new tab)linked as “reward hacking”
Read at software.rajivprab.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “Inoculate”
Read at redwoodresearch.org (opens in a new tab)1 other post
linked as “fitness-seeking-like”
Read at blog.redwoodresearch.org (opens in a new tab)linked as “decided it must be a “bad person””
Read at noahpinion.blog (opens in a new tab)linked as “learning to “cheat””
Read at aleximas.substack.com (opens in a new tab)linked as “Anthropic’s study”
Read at changkun.de (opens in a new tab)linked as “reward hacking in language models”
Read at gracekind.net (opens in a new tab)linked as “inoculation prompting”
Read at thezvi.wordpress.com (opens in a new tab)Links from this post
Elsewhere on anthropic.com (7)
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