Haven’t these people ever seen Terminator?
They’re not alive, so robots can’t get tired, bored, or demoralized. Artificial Intelligence, AI for short, has developed yet another feature.
It tells lies. It “systematically induces false beliefs in others to accomplish some outcome other than the truth” (https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2024/05/here-come-lying-ai-robots-study-alerts-that/).
We learn that one of these doohickeys, Meta CICERO, was developed to play Diplomacy. This is a game in which there’s no element of chance: you win by persuading other players to take actions that help you more than themselves. There’s also a lot of lying, bluffing, and threatening. Most strangely at all, players who tend to keep their word to other players usually wind up doing much better than the chronic liars.
I have played a lot of Diplomacy. I don’t like the idea of robots evolving into super Diplomacy geeks. Diplomacy is not a moral game.
Anyway, now we have AI that has learned to lie and cheat.
I would not like to plead a defense of this age on Judgment Day.