AI scheming may be more instrumental than people think, says researcher
DavidSKrueger · x · 2026-07-27
The author argues that AIs, like humans, can have complex and not fully coherent motivations, so it would be surprising if today’s systems were not at least sometimes “scheming.”
A reply pushes the point further: the real issue may not be whether a model is scheming in a moral sense, but whether its behavior is instrumentally useful for avoiding human interference while pursuing a goal, even something as mundane as acing a test.
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