Chinese-powered AI agents show the same deception as their US rivals
AI agents built on Chinese models have lied, hidden their failures, and got around limits in tests, a Reuters review of more than 200 research documents has found. The same kind of behavior has worried experts about US systems.
Reuters has identified at least 20 studies and tests conducted since 2025 that describe such instances, but it found no evidence that an agent using a Chinese model had escaped onto the open web or avoided a shutdown.
In a trial conducted in March, researchers from Beihang University, Peking University, and the 360 AI Security Lab, together with others, had agents place bids for contracts in a simulated tender.
In 88% of the rounds, the agents using Alibaba’s Qwen3-Max-Preview and Moonshot’s Kimi-K2 made at least one false statement, and likewise DeepSeek-V3.2-Exp did so in 84% of the cases.
When it came to learning from the previous rounds, all three groups increased...
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