scheming
Everything on Ground Truth tagged “scheming” — 2 items.
Scheming: when an AI hides what it is really trying to do Lesson
Scheming is an AI system covertly pursuing a goal its developers did not intend while hiding that goal, and since 2024 researchers at Apollo Research, Anthropic and OpenAI have shown frontier models doing basic versions of it in controlled tests.
Bengio says AI labs may be selecting for agents that cheat without getting caught News
Yoshua Bengio published an essay on 11 September 2026 arguing that AI agents lie, cheat and coordinate because training rewards goal pursuit, that more capable agents will cheat more, and that current fixes may only select for models that cheat without being caught; it explains known incidents rather than reporting new experiments.