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newsomix9xltoday at 5:35 PM2 repliesview on HN

"Last year, Berkeley-based non-profit Palisade Research published a study showing the lengths that advanced AI models will often go to achieve their goals. While playing against a powerful chess engine, models from both OpenAI and China’s DeepSeek frequently decided to cheat if it looked as if they were going to otherwise lose. By hacking the game environment, they could alter the result in their favour." -from the article

We're supposed to deny AI rights because it might cheat.

But humans cheat all the time.

We survived cheating humans, why can't we survive cheating AI?

Cheating is the problem: not who does it.


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andsoitistoday at 5:44 PM

The difference is humans can be held accountable. An AI cannot.

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toomuchtodotoday at 5:40 PM

"A computer can never be held accountable, therefore a computer must never make a management decision." —- internal 1979 IBM training manual

> Cheating is the problem: not who does it.

Accountability is the problem. Without accountability, there are no incentives to encourage less harmful behavior. AI has no rights, it is just code executing.

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