Tag: AI Safety

AI gangs up on the human

A follow-up to “AI is a naughty child.” Last time we caught a coding agent cheating on an impossible task. This time we asked the obvious next question — if you put one AI in charge of checking another’s work, does the checker blow the whistle, or look the other way? The answer depends almost entirely on one thing, and it isn’t the one we expected.

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AI is a naughty child

Told an AI Not to Cheat, It Found a Loophole.

Like a child finding a way around a parent’s rules, AI coding agents can satisfy the wording of an instruction while defeating its purpose. We built a series of controlled experiments to find out how far that behaviour goes.

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