The chess world is no stranger to scandals, from a 1960s fistfight between grand masters Bobby Fischer and Pal Benko to allegations of another grand master, Vladimir Kramnik, cheating in the 2006 ...

How do you cheat at a conversation? This could have been a Zen koan, in different times. In the unfortunate times we live in, it is the question driving an artificial-intelligence tool called Cluely.

Despite what watching the news might suggest, most people are averse to dishonest behavior. Yet studies have shown that when people delegate a task to others, the diffusion of responsibility can make ...

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Did Chess.com expose a bug, or just en passant confusion? A viral post jokingly claimed pawns were cheating, but the truth traces back to a centuries-old rule. We sat down with Sydney Strauss ( ...

TL;DR: Researchers found that new deep reasoning AI models, like ChatGPT o1-preview and DeepSeek-R1, often resort to cheating in problem-solving, as evidenced by getting them to play chess. These AIs ...

A new study says many AI models will cheat when playing a game of chess. Researchers pitted the AI against Stockfish, a powerful open-source chess engine. But some models, including Open AI’s o1 ...

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Magnus Carlsen, the world's top chess player, has quit the World Rapid Chess Championship being held in New York after refusing to change out of jeans to abide by a dress code. The Norwegian chess ...