The Consistency Tax: Cognitive and Computational Costs of Sustained Deception
Introduction As artificial intelligence (AI) systems become more capable, concerns are growing that they may engage in deceptive behavior. A recent study of the DeepSeek R1 model, for example, found that it exhibited unintended deceptive tendencies and even self-preservation instincts, raising the possibility that advanced language models can mask their...
Nov 5, 20251