{
  "id": 7410,
  "url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03250v1",
  "title": "Ethical Implications of Training Deceptive AI",
  "summary": "Deceptive behavior in AI systems is no longer theoretical: large language models strategically mislead without producing false statements, maintain deceptive strategies through safety training, and coordinate deception in multi-agent settings. While the European Union's AI Act prohibits deployment of deceptive AI systems, it explicitly exempts research and development, creating a necessary but unstructured space in which no established framework governs how deception research should be conducted",
  "authors": "Jason Starace, Bert Baumgaertner, Terence Soule",
  "category": "research",
  "topics": "regulation,agents-autonomy",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "eu",
  "published_at": "2026-03-10T20:30:27.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-07-14T16:33:12.391Z",
  "source_slug": "arxiv-ethics",
  "source_name": "arXiv",
  "source_homepage": "https://arxiv.org",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/7410",
  "original_url": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.03250v1",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}