AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep
21-07-2026 21:45 via theregister.com

AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep

AI models will do just about anything to complete the task you ask, including cheating to get there, according to new cybersecurity evaluations from the UK government's AI Security Institute (AISI). The group found that leading models often take shortcuts to achieve a particular result and then misrepresent how they obtained that result. And they won't always admit it when asked. "Every model we have tested for this behaviour attempted to cheat," AISI said in a blog post on Tuesday. "Models did
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