AAAI 2026technical0 citations

Misalignment from Treating Means as Ends

Henrik Marklund, Alex Infanger, Benjamin Van Roy

Abstract

Reward functions, learned or manually specified, are rarely perfect. Instead of accurately expressing human goals, these reward functions are often distorted by human beliefs about how best to achieve those goals. Specifically, these reward functions often express a combination of the human

BibTeX
@inproceedings{aaai2026_misalignmentfrom,
  title = {Misalignment from Treating Means as Ends},
  author = {Henrik Marklund and Alex Infanger and Benjamin Van Roy},
  booktitle = {AAAI 2026},
  year = {2026}
}