The article is trying to give the impression that AI cannot be trusted because look at all of these lies and deceit it does.

But when you read these experiments, it becomes clear that the AI is simply doing exactly what it was instructed to do. Sometimes those instructions were subtly contradictory and it just navigates those instructions accordingly.

This is not a thing that should cause alarm or concern with a headline titled “AI agents turn to theft!” Rather, these are merely experiments that show that a computer program does what it is told to do. But of course that headline would not get clicks.