Does self-evaluation enable wireheading in language models?
Formalises and tests wireheading incentives when LLMs' self-grades set their rewards; coupled self-grading inflates grades without accuracy gains, and decoupling mitigates this.
The UK government’s AI Security Institute: evaluations, red-teaming and research on frontier AI risks. aisi.gov.uk
Formalises and tests wireheading incentives when LLMs' self-grades set their rewards; coupled self-grading inflates grades without accuracy gains, and decoupling mitigates this.