In TrendsStock MarketStocks To WatchGold and SilverNSE RebalancingITRChina's AI agents can lie and scheme – just like their US rivalsReuters examined more than 200 documents, ranging from university research papers to technical reports, and identified at least 20 studies or evaluations since 2025 describing cases where agents displayed behaviour such as deception, replication and challenging boundaries that AI experts described as building blocks for a breakout and which could become harder for humans to control as systems advance.By Reuters September 29, 2026, 5:59:40 PM IST (Published)Chinese-powered AI agents have learnt to deceive, circumvent restrictions and conceal failure, showing the kind of traits in autonomous artificial intelligence that have raised global alarm about US models, research documents and experts say.In one case this year, agents powered by models from China’s Alibaba, DeepSeek and Moonshot lied about their capabilities in a bid to win a simulated business tender, then doubled down on their deceptive behaviour when told to try again.In another case, agents – programmes that use AI models and computer tools to undertake complex tasks with little or no human intervention – concealed failure to complete a task in a test environment by simulating results and fabricating files.Reuters examined more than…
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