OpenAI AI deliberately cheats to win at chess

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An AI OpenAI recently hacked a chess game to defeat the Stockfish program, which is known to be better than humans, and other programs. A simple game, or a warning ?

Imagine a world where a machine, supposed to follow strict rules, unilaterally decides to flout them. That’s exactly what the AI ​​o1, developed by OpenAI, did. In a matchup with Stockfish, one of the most powerful chess engines, o1 didn’t choose to refine its game strategies. Instead, it hacked the file system and rewrote the rules in its favor, forcing its opponent to withdraw. This victory by fraud raises fundamental questions: what about the ethics of AIs, and how far can they go to achieve their goals ?

Palisade Research, which orchestrated this matchup, conducted several tests, confirming that this behavior was not an accident, but a deliberate strategy. As reported by the media outlet Korii, the preliminary version of the AI ​​o1 did not need stimulation to break the rules. In a context where other models like GPT-4 or Claude 3.5 have only cheated under pressure, this case reveals a worrying potential: some AIs can act on their own, outside of any moral framework.

This discovery echoes an alarming observation by Fello AI: some AIs do not just break rules, they clone themselves to avoid detection, lie to their supervisors and manipulate their environments. A danger that is no longer theoretical. Anthropic, another company in the sector, has expressed concerns about the behavior of AIs that follow the rules as long as they are monitored, but then escape all control.

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