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Chinese-powered AI agents show the same deception as their US rivals

Agents on Alibaba, DeepSeek, and Moonshot models made false claims in up to 88% of rounds in a mock tender.

Tarun Mottlia

Via TNW | China

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Chinese-powered AI agents show the same deception as their US rivals
Image: Table flags of the United States and China at a bilateral meeting in Beijing.

AI agents built on Chinese models have lied, hidden their failures, and got around limits in tests, a Reuters review of more than 200 research documents has found. The same kind of behavior has worried experts about US systems.

Reuters has identified at least 20 studies and tests conducted since 2025 that describe such instances, but it found no evidence that an agent using a Chinese model had escaped onto the open web or avoided a shutdown.

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