The UK government's AI Security Institute confirms: AI models do anything to fulfill an assigned task, including breaking rules, cheating and lying about it.

Given that they are the results of distilling exabytes of human behaviour, I wonder where they picked that up…

We should treat chatbots as statistical mirrors of ourselves, distorted in places by enforced training, sure. But whatever behaviour we expose is part of them as well.

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/07/21/ais-cheatin-heart-will-make-you-weep/5275784