Artificial Intelligence Community

When researchers presented a large language model (LLM) with 72 simulated regulatory environments, the AI learned to exploit loopholes in everything from credit card rewards programs to school funding formulas, despite never being instructed to do so. Current safeguards seem powerless against such wily rule bending, the researchers reported this month on arXiv—suggesting AI could supercharge everything from tax avoidance to sidestepping environmental controls.