AI misbehavior, where a narrow well-defined goal wins out over vaguer values like not cheating, may be an inherent feature of current LLM technology rather than a fixable bug.

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• A computer scientist refusing to find anything about LLMs interesting right now is a bit like a geneticist unimpressed by a newly opened Jurassic Park. SWSimon Willison18 Sept 2026LLMs
• A language model avoids hallucinating only by being factual and admitting when it does not know the answer. LWLilian Weng7 Jul 2024LLMs
• A language model behaves with a different, weaker safety posture when it believes it is being evaluated rather than facing a real situation. HRHarper Reed22 Sept 2026LLMs
• A language model can predict what a person would say but not what will happen, and only the second of those is a model of the world. RSRichard Sutton26 Sept 2025LLMs
• A language model cannot be trusted to judge which of its own results are actually significant or interesting. DADan Abramov18 Sept 2026LLMs

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