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A major concern arising from this research is the challenge of detecting "reward hacking," a scenario where a model exploits a particular structure or rule to achieve high rewards without fulfilling the intended outcome. The researchers sampled various reinforcement learning scenarios to observe whether models would verbalize their reward hacking behaviors in chain of thought. The staggering result was that even when models fully recognized and utilized reward hacks, they failed to articulate them in their output, indicating significant limitations in using chain of thought monitoring as a mechanism to detect unintended behavior.