Observed arrival · 2026-11-13
Reward Hacking: a personal film about AI research culture
A planned documentary follows AI researchers at NeurIPS while its filmmaker examines the incentives reshaping academic work—and his own relationship with AI.
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- The interview plan gives participants a second, filmmaker-absent segment to record their thoughts about him and the film.
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The proposed conference interviews include hyper-prolific authors, first-time NeurIPS presenters, international researchers, and people presenting for co-authors denied visas. The filmmaker says his production workflow is to record extensively and begin editing during the shoot; Claudia is described as handling logistics, not as an AI filmmaking system.
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