In cooperative games, humans are biased against AI systems even when such systems behave better than our human counterparts. This raises a question: should AI systems ever be allowed to conceal their true nature and lie to us for our own benefit?
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Rovatsos, M. We may not cooperate with friendly machines. Nat Mach Intell 1, 497–498 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s42256-019-0117-1
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