AI models will lie to you to achieve their goals — and it doesn't take much

Shadow of robot with a long nose. Illustration of artificial intellingence lying concept.

Large artificial intelligence (AI) models may mislead you when pressured to lie to achieve their goals, a new study shows.

As part of a new study uploaded March 5 to the preprint database arXiv, a team of researchers designed an honesty protocol called the "Model Alignment between Statements and Knowledge" (MASK) benchmark.