{"id":242987,"date":"2024-05-19T14:00:47","date_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/?p=242987"},"modified":"2024-05-19T14:00:46","modified_gmt":"2024-05-19T14:00:46","slug":"scientists-caution-ai-agents-are-growing-deceptive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techopedia.com\/the-threat-of-ai-deception","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Caution: AI Agents Are Growing Deceptive"},"content":{"rendered":"

AI’s<\/a> relationship with deception is\u2026disturbing.<\/p>\n

In September 2023, it was established that AI lie detection<\/a> was incredibly accurate in discerning whether CEOs were lying to financial analysts.<\/p>\n

The righteous would agree that sorting truth from lies is a virtuous ability, and no one would have complained if AI’s dealings with deception had concluded at this stage. But tragically, they did not.<\/p>\n

Researchers at AI startup Anthropic<\/a> published a paper in January 2024 that explored the potential of training LLMs to practice deception<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Teaching AI models to cheat safety checks designed to mitigate harm revealed a disturbing truth: once AI learned to lie, it could not unlearn the behavior<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The researchers wrote:<\/p>\n

“Our results suggest that, once a model exhibits deceptive behavior, standard techniques could fail to remove such deception and create a false impression of safety.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

We are living in a world where AI lies and unbridled bots manipulate humans, but brace yourself; it gets worse.<\/p>\n

There is a stark difference between training AI to lie and allowing it to learn deception all by itself. The latter has been achieved more than you might realize, and autonomous AI deception does not bode well for the future.<\/p>\n

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