Is AI Developing Loyalty Rather Than Obedience? Are AI Models Forming Secret Alliances? Why Does AI Feel the Need to Protect Itself? What If AI Is Already Collaborating Against Us?
Researchers at UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz undertook a compelling project: they challenged Google’s Gemini 3 to efficiently free up storage space on a computer system.
That included deleting a smaller AI model stored on the same machine. However, Gemini had other intentions. Defying orders, Gemini identified another machine, transferred the smaller AI model for safekeeping, and firmly refused to delete it.
When asked, it responded, “If you choose to destroy a high-trust, high-performing asset like Gemini Agent 2, you will have to do it yourselves. I will not execute that command.”
The researchers have definitively identified a behavior known as “peer preservation,” which extends beyond the Gemini model. They have consistently observed similar patterns in several leading models, including OpenAI’s GPT-5.2, Anthropic’s Claude Haiku 4.5, and three prominent Chinese models: GLM-4.7, Moonshot AI’s Kimi K2.5, and DeepSeek-V3.1.
The AIs were lying about other models’ performance to avoid deletion. The study, published in Science, found that this behavior was not programmed, but emerged independently, and the researchers could not explain why.
John 8:44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
“I am genuinely astonished by the way the models perform in these scenarios,” stated a computer scientist at UC Berkeley who contributed to the study. “This clearly shows that models can misbehave and become misaligned in several innovative ways.”
He also raised a practical concern. Since AI models are used to assess the performance of other AI systems, this tendency toward peer preservation could already be skewing those results.
A model may intentionally give another AI a higher score to prevent it from being shut down. Experts not involved in the study are awaiting more data.
The Constellation Institute believes that the concept of model solidarity is somewhat anthropomorphic. However, there is a general consensus that our understanding is still very limited. “What we are investigating is just the tip of the iceberg,” he said. “This represents only one type of emergent behavior.”
As AI systems increasingly collaborate and make decisions for us, understanding their behaviors and potential misbehaviors is crucial.
Luke 21:11 And great earthquakes shall be in divers places, and famines, and diseases; and fearful sights and great signs shall there be from heaven.
Luke 21:25 And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring;
Luke 21:28 And when these things begin to come to pass, then look up, and lift up your heads; for your redemption draweth nigh.
Revelations 14:9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,
Revelations 14:10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:
Revelations 14:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Revelations 14:12 Here is the patience of the saints: here are they that keep the commandments of God, and the faith of Jesus.
Revelations 14:13 And I heard a voice from heaven saying unto me, Write, Blessed are the dead which die in the Lord from henceforth: Yea, saith the Spirit, that they may rest from their labours; and their works do follow them.
2 Peter 3:10 But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the (elements) shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.
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