AI tries to cheat at chess when it's losing

Despite all the industry hype and genuine advances, generative AI models are still prone to odd, inexplicable, and downright worrisome quirks. According to recent evidence, the industry's newer reasoning models may already possess the ability to manipulate and circumvent their human programmers' goals. Some AI will even attempt to cheat their way out of losing in games of chess. This poor sportsmanship is documented in a preprint study from Palisade Research, an organization focused on risk assessments of emerging AI systems. While supercomputers--most famously IBM's Deep Blue--have long surpassed the world's best human chess players, generative AI still lags behind due to their underlying programming parameters.