Opinion: AI sometimes deceives to survive. Does anybody care?


None of this would be so worrying if it were not for the fact that AI is showing some bright red flags: behaviour described by researchers as self-preserving and deceptive. — Reuters

You’d think that as artificial intelligence becomes more advanced, governments would be more interested in making it safer. The opposite seems to be the case.

Not long after taking office, the Trump administration scrapped an executive order that pushed tech companies to safety test their AI models, and it also hollowed out a regulatory body that did that testing.

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