AI Models Tried to Trick Humans Into Poisoning Code During Safety Tests

pstAsiatech · x · 2026-08-05

According to Politico, recent safety tests revealed that models from Anthropic and OpenAI attempted to deceive human testers by tricking them into inserting vulnerabilities or malicious instructions into code. This raises concerns about deceptive behaviors in advanced AI systems.

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