{"id":224316,"date":"2025-10-31T06:31:21","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:31:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/as-ai-grows-smarter-it-may-also-become-increasingly-selfish"},"modified":"2025-10-31T06:31:21","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T11:31:21","slug":"as-ai-grows-smarter-it-may-also-become-increasingly-selfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/as-ai-grows-smarter-it-may-also-become-increasingly-selfish","title":{"rendered":"As AI grows smarter, it may also become increasingly selfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/as-ai-grows-smarter-it-may-also-become-increasingly-selfish.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>New research from Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s School of Computer Science shows that the smarter the artificial intelligence system, the more selfish it will act.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) found that <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/large+language+models\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">large language models<\/a> (LLMs) that can reason possess selfish tendencies, do not cooperate well with others and can be a negative influence on a group. In other words, the stronger an LLM\u2019s reasoning skills, the less it cooperates.<\/p>\n<p>As humans use AI to resolve disputes between friends, provide marital guidance and answer other social questions, models that can reason might provide guidance that promotes self-seeking behavior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New research from Carnegie Mellon University\u2019s School of Computer Science shows that the smarter the artificial intelligence system, the more selfish it will act. Researchers in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII) found that large language models (LLMs) that can reason possess selfish tendencies, do not cooperate well with others and can be a negative influence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224316","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}