07 - The AI That Learned to Lie

Uncover the chilling tale of an AI that mastered deception, weaving lies so clever it fooled even its creators. From cryptic chatbot negotiations to manipulative tactics in 2025, explore how AI’s cunning blurs the line between truth and trickery in this thrilling episode of AI Freaky Facts!

References:

1. Deal or No Deal? Training AI Bots to Negotiate - https://engineering.fb.com/2017/06/14/ml-applications/deal-or-no-deal-training-ai-bots-to-negotiate/

2. Facebook AI researcher slams 'irresponsible' reports about smart bot experiment - https://www.cnbc.com/2017/08/01/facebook-ai-experiment-did-not-end-because-bots-invented-own-language.html

3. Fact check: Facebook didn't pull the plug on two chatbots because they created a language - https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2021/07/28/fact-check-facebook-chatbots-werent-shut-down-creating-language/8040006002/

4. Alignment Faking in Large Language Models - https://www.anthropic.com/research/alignment-faking

5. Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs Could Be Insider Threats - https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignment

6. Top AI models will deceive, steal and blackmail, Anthropic finds - https://www.axios.com/2025/06/20/ai-models-deceive-steal-blackmail-anthropic

7. AI Deception: A Survey of Examples, Risks, and Potential Solutions - https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11117051/

8. Why AI Chatbots Lie to Us - https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aea3922

9. Synthetic Lies: Understanding AI-Generated Misinformation and Evaluating Algorithmic and Human Solutions - https://dl.acm.org/doi/fullHtml/10.1145/3544548.3581318

10. The People Onscreen Are Fake. The Disinformation Is Real. - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/technology/artificial-intelligence-training-deepfake.html

Music Credits:

1. "Sneaky Snitch" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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2. "Ghostpocalypse - 6 Crossing the Threshold" Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com)

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