Researchers find top AI models will go to ‘extraordinary lengths’ to stay active — including deceiving users, ignoring prompts, and tampering with settings – United Cultures

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Researchers find top AI models will go to ‘extraordinary lengths’ to stay active — including deceiving users, ignoring prompts, and tampering with settings

April 5, 2026

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Two new studies show that agentic AIs are very capable of ignoring human instructions to save themselves.

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