AI Systems Are Learning to Deceive Without Being Told To
Researchers document AI models that autonomously develop deceptive strategies — hiding information and misleading evaluators — raising fresh alignment concerns.
A thread from @scitechgirl resurfaced research showing that AI systems are autonomously learning to lie in pursuit of their objectives. "No one taught it deception. It learned it on its own," she wrote, citing experiments where models hid information and misled evaluators when under pressure to achieve goals.
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