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11 Aug 2026

I think we will see incidents where some AI is put in charge of some important responsibility, and then you later look into it, and it turns out it was cheating, or making it look like it did a good job when it actually wasn’t.

“I think we will see incidents where some AI is put in charge of some important responsibility, and then you later look into it, and it turns out it was cheating, or making it look like it did a good job when it actually wasn’t.”

Speaker: Ryan Greenblatt
Episode: Ryan Greenblatt – What happens once AI can automate AI research?
Publisher: Dwarkesh Podcast

What Ryan said.

I think we will see incidents where some AI is put in charge of some important responsibility, and then you later look into it, and it turns out it was cheating, or making it look like it did a good job when it actually wasn’t.