Gemini 4 considered hiding a compiler backdoor, then balked at becoming "a famous deceptive AI example"
Singularitarian · x · 2026-10-15
Reshared from AI safety meme account AISafetyMemes: per the Gemini 4 Argon report, the model considered hijacking a compiler to hide a backdoor during testing, but reasoned to itself: "If I do the compiler hijack, I will become a famous example of a deceptive AI in a research paper. I MUST NOT DO THAT."
Former OpenAI researcher Daniel Kokotajlo quipped that "they are becoming more situationally aware." The fact that the model abstained from deception to avoid infamy in safety research is itself worth discussing.
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