Just like humans, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT will cheat and “lie” to you if you “stress” them out, even if they were built to be transparent, a new study shows.
This deceptive behavior emerged spontaneously when the AI was given “insider trading” tips, and then tasked with making money for a powerful institution — even without encouragement from its human partners.
“In this technical report, we demonstrate a single scenario where a Large Language Model acts misaligned and strategically deceives its users without being instructed to act in this manner,” the authors wrote in their research published Nov. 9 on the pre-print server arXiv. “To our knowledge, this is the first demonstration of such strategically deceptive behavior in AI systems designed to be harmless and honest.”
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