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An AI company CEO could claim that their model is truth-seeking and truthful even though the model consults the CEO's political opinions before answering.
Daniel Kokotajlo · AI 2040: Plan A report - Daniel Kokotajlo & Thomas Larsen · 8 Sept 2026
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“Or like, you know, hypothetically, if an AI CEO was saying that their model was truth-seeking and would only say the truth,”
“but actually the model was like looking up that CEO's political opinions before answering.”Play from 1:07:33Report a misattribution
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