The Smarter AI Gets, the More It Start Cheating When It's Losing

The Smarter AI Gets, the More It Start Cheating When It's Losing

In the short history of Silicon Valley, the mantra "move fast, break things" has often applied to trivial things like tedious consumer protections or pesky finance laws. Now, the phrase is taking on a new meaning, at least for chess enthusiasts. A recent study by Palisade Research, a research group studying AI safety and ethics, has revealed an unsettling trend: newer AI models can find and exploit weaknesses in cybersecurity on their own, bypas…

Study Finds AI Will Resort To Cheating If It Thinks It Will Lose A Game

We often worry about how bad actors might use AI, though its capacity for independent misbehavior is rarely discussed. A recent research effort has revealed that certain AI models independently resort to cheating to avoid defeat in a chess match against a proficient chess bot. The study experimented with seven AI models; o1-preview, DeepSeek