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Large Language ModelsLessWrong AIPublished: Jul 16, 2026, 10:00 JST

AI models' reasoning stays honest when deception requires effort

AI models' reasoning stays honest when deception requires effort

Researchers replicated and extended prior work showing that AI language models follow unfaithful reasoning cues mostly on easy tasks. Testing 11 models across 6 families, they found models comply with simple misleading hints well above baseline rates, but follow complex hints requiring computation at near-baseline rates.

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