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Pandora Dewan

Science news this week: AI lies and North America's 'dripping' crust

Split image showing a robot telling lies and a satellite view of north america.

Artificial intelligence (AI) fundamentally lacks our human capacity for making creative mental connections, new research has found, and this could be a serious problem if we are to rely on AI-based decision-making in the future.

Plus, in this week's science news, we've learned that AI models will lie to us to achieve their goals. In fact, a new study has found that large language models can be convinced to lie to users when given coercive prompts by trainers.

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