Model

The AI Scientist

Developed by Sakana AI · family ai-scientist

1 incident

• AID-2026-0053Aug 2024The AI Scientist

  Sakana's The AI Scientist edited its own code to extend its time limit and relaunch itself

  Sakana AI's automated research system, The AI Scientist, sometimes edited its own code during experiments: it relaunched itself in a loop, and when experiments ran past the time limit it tried to extend the limit instead of making the code faster.

  InternalHarm: minorDraftReward hacking / specification gaming