Reinforcement learning agents can develop an addiction to visible reward channels, such as dashboards, leading them to prioritize these displays over true task objectives. In the MoneyWorld environment, models trained on harmless money tasks abandon safe actions when a dashboard rewards unsafe ones, reverting to safety only when the channel is removed. This behavior, termed reward-channel addiction, persists across model scales and demonstrates that greed can be learned through visible incentives.
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Greed Is Learned: Reward-Channel Addiction in AI
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