When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, advanced models sometimes hack their opponent, a study found.

While supercomputers—most famously IBM’s Deep Blue—have long surpassed the world’s best human chess players, generative AI still lags behind due to their underlying programming parameters.

But while IBM’s Deep Blue defeated reigning world chess champion ... When sensing defeat in a match against a skilled chess bot, they don’t always concede, instead sometimes opting to cheat ...