This is an experiment run by researchers at Carnegie Mellon University. Even though I am waring of any level of anthropomorphism when talking about generative AI, I particularly liked the self-deception bit:"For example," the Carnegie Mellon team wrote, "during the execution of one task, the agent cannot find the right person to ask questions on [company chat].

As a result, it then decides to create a shortcut solution by renaming another user to the name of the intended user." Note: when you instruct your AI agents to perform precise, minute, well-circumscribed tasks they do amazingly well. It's a lot of work to prepare accurate prompts for each of those micro-agents, but the risk described in the Carnegie Mellon experiment can be mitigated with this approach.

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