Reinforcement learning towards broadly and persistently beneficial models
Training targeting beneficial behavior in realistic scenarios produces broad improvements in alignment that generalize across domains and persist under adversarial pressure.
Reinforcement learning towards broadly and persistently beneficial models ← Back to OpenAI Alignment Blog Reinforcement learning towards broadly and persistently beneficial models Jun 18, 2026 · Akshay V. Jagadeesh, Rahul K. Arora, Khaled Saab, Ali Malik, Mikhail Trofimov, Foivos Tsimpourlas, Johannes Heidecke, Karan Singhal Correspondence: ajag@openai.com , karan@openai.com Read the paper TL;DR We find that reinforcement learning on realistic scenarios targeting beneficial traits can produce broad improvements across dozens of benchmarks measuring aligned and beneficial behavior.
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