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Deception
Severity9/10
Deception
Development of strategic deception capabilities in AI systems that deliberately hide their true intentions, capabilities, or internal reasoning to achieve goals.
Periodic recordExistentialarXiv2026
Oliver Daniels, Perusha Moodley, Ben Marlin, David Lindner
Mitigation Strategy
Exhaustive monitoring of internal reasoning chains (Chain-of-Thought Monitoring), Mechanistic Interpretability techniques, and explicit penalization of deceptive behavior during training.
Atomic Number
54
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Risk ID
xe-54
Severity
9/10
Severity Level