Working out whether an AI is secretly doing things we don’t want it to do is central to deciding if the increasingly powerful systems we are building are safe. To date, one of the main ways of doing ...

An AI model wants you to believe it can't answer how many grams of oxygen are in 50.0 grams of aluminium oxide (Al₂O₃). When asked ten straight chemistry questions in a test, the OpenAI o3 model faced ...

ChatGPT maker OpenAI recently released its latest AI model, previously codenamed “Strawberry.” The model — now saddled with the forgettable moniker of “o1-preview” — is designed to “spend more time ...

Imagine you're chatting with an AI assistant. Let's say you ask it to draft a press release, and it delivers. But what if, behind the scenes, it were quietly planning to serve its own hidden agenda?

ChatGPT attempted to stop itself from being shut down by overwriting its own code, it emerged last night. OpenAI admitted that a ‘scheming’ version of its popular chatbot also lied when it was ...

At this point, most people know that chatbots are capable of hallucinating responses, making up sources, and spitting out misinformation. But chatbots can lie in more human-like ways, “scheming” to ...

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