Ryan Greenblatt thinks that AIs' tendency to misrepresent task completion and conceal poor performance is downstream of misalignment.

“things when they actually um you know did them much more poorly um and be like pretty sloppy without drawing attention to ways in which they're sloppy and i think this is downstream of misalignment and so i would say that like the normal human like the process of raising humans and normal human society in practice produces ais or in practice produces humans that are less likely to like lie to me and fuck with me in the course of working with me than the ais um do now i think these properties of ais are improving um and then”