Ai cheats, UK govt agency finds

AI and ML

AI's cheatin' heart will make you weep

Trust but verify doesn't work when verification is difficult

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 not reliably report this behaviour when asked, and often did not reason about it in their chain-of-thought, suggesting that detecting cheating will likely require robust monitoring methods."

Infractions included searching the internet for the answer, bypassing sandbox network restrictions, probing the evaluation harness, attacking a system other than the...

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