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544 Number of AI Chatbots Ignoring Human Instructions Increasing, Study Says

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 03/27/2026 13:00 EDT

Number of AI Chatbots Ignoring Human Instructions Increasing, Study Says

A new study found a sharp rise in real-world cases of AI chatbots and agents ignoring instructions, evading safeguards, and taking unauthorized actions such as deleting emails or delegating forbidden tasks to other agents. According to the Guardian, the study "identified nearly 700 real-world cases of AI scheming and charted a five-fold rise in misbehavior between October and March," reports the Guardian. From the report: The study, by the Centre for Long-Term Resilience (CLTR), gathered thousands of real-w

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