New research shows your AI chatbot might be lying to you - convincingly

In context: These days, plenty of AI chatbots walk you through their reasoning step by step, laying out their "thought process" before delivering an answer, as if showing their homework. It's all about making that final response feel earned rather than pulled out of thin air, instilling a sense of transparency and even reassurance – until you realize those explanations are fake. That's the unsettling takeaway from a new study by Anthropic, the makers of the Claude AI model. They decided to test whether reasoning models tell the truth about how they reach their answers or if they're quietly keeping secrets. The results certainly raise some eyebrows. To test their "faithfulness," the researchers ran multiple experiments on chain-of-thought (COT) models Claude 3.7 Sonnet and DeepSeek-R1. These models break down complex problems into smaller steps, which they detail as they generate a response. The experiments involved feeding the models subtle hints before asking them questions and then ... Read full article.