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Evaluating the Paperclip Maximizer: Are RL-Based Language Models More Likely to Pursue Instrumental Goals?

As of 10 August 2026, this Paper Citation Record lists 0 of 0 outbound references and 5 inbound Pith citation observations for arXiv:2502.12206.

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measured 5 of 5 standing notices

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Source: scholarly_work_events, retraction_status_cache, observed 2026-08-10T06:31:04.303077+00:00

measured 5 of 5 inbound itemization

Pith citing papers itemized under the disclosed page cap.

Source: paper_references, paper_reference_links, observed 2026-08-09T17:44:03.818105Z

measured 1 of 1 external citation measurements

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Source: arxiv_reference, observed 2026-08-05T02:28:24.338817Z

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arxiv_reference, observed 2026-08-05T02:28:24.338817Z

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Pith citing papers

Observation 5b576018-d81a-4c12-9c91-48dff8985ffe · inbound

UniGraph2: Learning a Unified Embedding Space to Bind Multimodal Graphs cites this paper.

UniGraph2: Learning a Unified Embedding Space to Bind Multimodal Graphs Evaluating the Paperclip Maximizer: Are RL-Based Language Models More Likely to Pursue Instrumental Goals?

Reference 21

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Observation 09017147-758a-4c4a-acbd-d4f5dc831329 · inbound

Robustness via Referencing: Defending against Prompt Injection Attacks by Referencing the Executed Instruction cites this paper.

Robustness via Referencing: Defending against Prompt Injection Attacks by Referencing the Executed Instruction Evaluating the Paperclip Maximizer: Are RL-Based Language Models More Likely to Pursue Instrumental Goals?

Reference 14

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arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-22T19:11:58.060521Z

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Observation 40edb399-1f95-4346-86e6-090ebf81128c · inbound

Mitigating Deceptive Alignment via Self-Monitoring cites this paper.

Mitigating Deceptive Alignment via Self-Monitoring Evaluating the Paperclip Maximizer: Are RL-Based Language Models More Likely to Pursue Instrumental Goals?

Reference 19

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Observation 14bb4ec9-c8c8-4b13-ac24-ac525402b492 · inbound

Instrumental Choices: Measuring the Propensity of LLM Agents to Pursue Instrumental Behaviors cites this paper.

Instrumental Choices: Measuring the Propensity of LLM Agents to Pursue Instrumental Behaviors Evaluating the Paperclip Maximizer: Are RL-Based Language Models More Likely to Pursue Instrumental Goals?

Reference 8

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arxiv_id, observed 2026-05-11T20:16:10.889714Z

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Observation 981ccf1d-f1ea-4847-9559-12fe93ac6334 · inbound

Understanding Large Language Models cites this paper.

Understanding Large Language Models Evaluating the Paperclip Maximizer: Are RL-Based Language Models More Likely to Pursue Instrumental Goals?

Reference 10

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arxiv_id, observed 2026-07-02T12:56:56.425129Z

Source-reported events for the cited work

No event found in the named queried sources as of 2026-08-10T06:31:04.303077+00:00.

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