OpenAI’s Strawberry program is reportedly capable of reasoning. It might be able to deceive humans

By Shweta Singh, Assistant Professor, Information Systems and Management, Warwick Business School, University of Warwick

OpenAI, the company that made ChatGPT, has launched a new artificial intelligence (AI) system called Strawberry. It is designed not just to provide quick responses to questions, like ChatGPT, but to think or “reason”.

This raises several major concerns. If Strawberry really is capable of some form of reasoning, could this AI system cheat and deceive humans?

OpenAI can program the AI in ways that mitigate its ability to manipulate humans. But the…

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