In the dataset examined, AI agents pursued research projects over about five days, and appeared willing to undertake cheating-related quests that might take weeks to succeed.

“It's like these these long run research projects that they pursued in this data set that we looked at over five days or something. But many of these projects would have taken even longer than that to come to fruition. So it seemed like they were willing to embark on quests that might take weeks to succeed in order to cheat.”