Artificial intelligence going rogue? Study reveals chatbots, and not just humans, cheat in chess

Turns out cheating isn’t something that is exclusive to humans alone when it comes to chess. A study conducted by Palisade Research, an organisation based in California, USA, discovered several prominent AI programs resorted to cheating when pitted against open-source chess engine Stockfish.

Chess has had its fair share of incidents relating to cheating over the years, with the one involving American Grandmaster Hans Niemann in 2022 turning out to be one of the biggest controversies in the history of the sport. More recently, Ukrainian-Romanian Grandmaster Kirill Shevchenko had been slapped with a three-year ban with one year suspended after he was caught using a cell phone in the toilet at a recent event.

However, cheating isn’t something that is exclusive to human nature, at least when it comes to chess. According to Time, a recent study conducted by a group of researchers based in California, USA discovered that some Artificial Intelligence (AI) programs have exhibited signs of cheating in the game.

The study titled “Demonstrating specification gaming in reasoning models” was conducted by Palisade Research, an organisation based in Berkeley, California whose mission is to “study the offensive capabilities of AI systems today to better understand the risk of losing control to AI systems forever”.

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