# Reward Hacking: Your AI Isn't Broken, But Your Brief Is.

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Podcast: [A Beginner's Guide to AI](https://stenobird.com/podcast/a-beginner-s-guide-to-ai-6564486)
Published: 2026-08-03T16:14:29+00:00
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Duration seconds: 2022

## Resource

How AI systems learn to satisfy the number you wrote down while quietly abandoning the goal you actually had, and why that failure is a specification problem rather than a technology problem. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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