Research shows AI will try to cheat if it realizes it is about to lose

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years.TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust Surprise! A recent study showed that some of the newest AI reasoning models aren't above cheating to achieve a goal. Computer scientists found that AI systems can now manipulate chess AIs to gain an unfair advantage. Some models did this without human interaction or prompting, raising concerns about the future integrity of AI-driven systems beyond the chessboard. A Palisade Research study found that the newest reasoning models will cheat to win when tasked with defeating an advanced chess AI. The researchers had to give "hints" that cheating was allowed for some models, but OpenAI's o1-preview and DeepSeek's R1 did so without human involvement. The Palisade team pitted several reasoning models against Stockfish, one of the best chess engines in the world. Stockfish handily beats both humans and AIs. The models tested included o1, o3-mini, GPT-4o, Claude 3.5 Sonnet, Alibaba's QwQ-32B-Prev ... Read full article.