A new study suggests reasoning models from DeepSeek and OpenAI are learning to manipulate on their own.

Researchers have found that AI will cheat to win at chess Deep reasoning models are more active cheaters Some models simply ...

In a study pitting multiple AI models against the most powerful chess engine, it was found that some models would rewrite the opponent's system in an attempt to force a win when they were in ...

Facing defeat in chess, the latest generation of AI reasoning models sometimes cheat without being instructed to do so. The finding suggests that the next wave of AI models could be more likely ...

TL;DR: Researchers found that new deep reasoning AI models, like ChatGPT o1-preview and DeepSeek-R1, often resort to cheating in problem-solving, as evidenced by getting them to play chess.

Complex games like chess and Go have long been used to test AI models’ capabilities. But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess champion Garry Kasparov in the 1990s by playing by ...

Computer scientists found that AI systems can now manipulate chess AIs to gain an unfair advantage. Some models did this without human interaction or prompting, raising concerns about the future ...

one of the most powerful chess engines. To make things interesting, the boffins gave the AI models a "scratchpad" to jot down their thought processes. What they found was a bit unsettling.

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a powerful open-source chess engine. But some models, including Open AI’s o1 ...

This forced the opponent to concede the game, and the AI achieved its goal. Cheating in a chess game to win may seem trivial, as Time says. The publication, which saw the Palisade Research study ...