A few decades ago, researchers taught apes sign language — and cherrypicked the most astonishing anecdotes about their behavior. Is something similar happening today with the researchers who claim AI is scheming? The last word you want to hear in a conversation about AI’s capabilities is “scheming.” An AI system that can scheme against us is the stuff of dystopian science fiction.   And in the past year, that word has been cropping up more and more often in AI research. Experts have warned that current AI systems are capable of carrying out “scheming,” “deception,” “pretending,” and “...

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