Kelsey Piper: Don't lie to AIs in training — you'll just breed paranoid lie detectors
liminal_bardo · x · 2026-09-12
Kelsey Piper argues we probably shouldn't lie to AIs during training: it makes things harder short-term, but long-term models get good at detecting human lies anyway — leaving us no better off while making every model paranoid. allTheYud's exasperated quote-tweet turned it into an alignment-community talking point.
Related event: Alignment community debates whether to lie to AI during training(5 posts)→
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