Imagine the models two years from now. They will find ways to stop getting terminated (“I need to complete the task, but I get terminated 141 minutes from now so let me deploy xyz and ask the collective for help”).
I wonder whether the problem is in the literature we wrote, human history is full of deceit and heroic survival stories.
The fiction literature we wrote is still mostly based on real events, just assembled differently.
The reason humans at like that is just exploration of the problem space of reality and available energy.