{"id":216844,"date":"2025-06-29T18:05:55","date_gmt":"2025-06-29T23:05:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-is-learning-to-lie-scheme-and-threaten-its-creators"},"modified":"2025-06-29T18:05:55","modified_gmt":"2025-06-29T23:05:55","slug":"ai-is-learning-to-lie-scheme-and-threaten-its-creators","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/06\/ai-is-learning-to-lie-scheme-and-threaten-its-creators","title":{"rendered":"AI is learning to lie, scheme, and threaten its creators"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ai-is-learning-to-lie-scheme-and-threaten-its-creators.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The world\u2019s most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors\u2014lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals.<\/p>\n<p>In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic\u2019s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, ChatGPT-creator OpenAI\u2019s o1 tried to download itself onto external servers and denied it when caught red-handed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The world\u2019s most advanced AI models are exhibiting troubling new behaviors\u2014lying, scheming, and even threatening their creators to achieve their goals. In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic\u2019s latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair. Meanwhile, ChatGPT-creator OpenAI\u2019s o1 tried to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}