17:45
2026-07-14
lesswrong.com
ai-safety
Can risk aversion learned at low stakes generalize to astronomically high stakes?
Researchers found that training language models to be risk-averse on low-stakes gambles (up to $100) can generalize to astronomically high stakes (up to $10^98), with Qwen3-8B choosing a safe 'Cooperaβ¦