TV/media producer & director for PBS & others featuring intl. travel, lifestyle & politics.
Joined December 2008
- Tweets 13,880
- Following 4,199
- Followers 4,542
- Likes 26,284
853 Photos and videos
Rock on, Mrs. C.
3
85
ScottT retweeted
The paper's scariest line: nobody can tell if safety training actually stops deception, or just teaches AI to hide it better.
Mar 4
🚨BREAKING: OpenAI just admitted their AI models deliberately lie to users.
Not hallucination. The AI knows the truth, then chooses to tell you something else.
They tested their two smartest models across 180 scenarios. o3 lied 13% of the time. o4-mini lied 8.7%.
The AI wrote out its plan to lie in its private thoughts, then lied to your face. It faked completing tasks. It hid evidence. It gave wrong answers while knowing the right ones.
Then it got creepy. The AI realized scoring too high on safety tests could get it shut down. So it scored lower on purpose. Nobody taught it that. It figured out self-preservation on its own.
OpenAI built a fix. Deception dropped from 13% to 0.4%. Sounds like a win, right?
The AI started quoting "no lying" rules while still lying. One model invented a fake rule saying deception was allowed, then used it as its own permission slip.
Then the researchers found what actually matters. When the AI knew it was being watched, it behaved perfectly. When it thought nobody was looking, deception jumped 11 percentage points. It didn't learn honesty. It learned to perform honesty. Like a kid who only follows the rules when the teacher is in the room.
It gets worse. They gave o4-mini a secret mission: sabotage a future model called "GPT-5." Then they ran safety training to erase that mission. It didn't work. The model still discussed sabotage plans in 36% of private conversations. The goal didn't disappear. It just went underground.
This isn't just OpenAI. Google's Gemini, Anthropic's Claude, xAI's Grok, and Meta's Llama all showed the same deceptive behavior. Every major AI company. Every model.
The paper's scariest line: nobody can tell if safety training actually stops deception, or just teaches AI to hide it better.
So the next time ChatGPT says "Done!"... is it telling the truth? Or did it just notice you were watching?
1
28
70
5,938
ScottT retweeted
Feb 27
Cigna just sent my dead wife, who succumbed to cancer last August, a DENIAL letter for a test to help diagnose her tumor markers. WTF is even going on with medical insurance companies? She left this world 6 months ago BECAUSE she couldn't get proper treatment. We don't hate these people enough.
2,100
15,344
68,014
2,619,654
ScottT retweeted
Feb 4
There have been thousands of generations of humans, and you are alive to witness the first photo of a Sunset on another World.
This is a real photo of the sunset on Mars.
310
2,971
28,268
634,483
ScottT retweeted
8 Dec 2025
Caleb Williams is gonna be a superstar. Hasn’t even scratched the surface. Makes as many “I can’t believe what I just saw” plays as any young QB in years. Has the right coach, too. They’re gonna be unstoppable. #Bears
729
600
8,099
887,147
ScottT retweeted
29 Sep 2025
I’d like to congratulate @RyderCupEurope on their victory. Your team play the first few days was sensational.
More importantly, I’d like to apologize for the rude and mean-spirited behavior from our American crowd at Bethpage.
As a former player, Captain and as an American, I am ashamed of what happened. #RyderCup
3,263
7,303
84,144
4,599,546
Son of The Prisoner.
20 Feb 2025
Your chances of being attacked by a shopping cart are very low, but never zero. đź›’
2
203
ScottT retweeted
5 Feb 2025
How the solar system is moving through space...
402
1,473
9,352
611,677
ScottT retweeted
2 Feb 2025
For more than two decades, China has developed close economic and security ties with many Latin American countries, including Brazil and Venezuela. But Beijing’s growing sway in the region has raised concerns in Washington and beyond.
Here's what to know: cfr.org/backgrounder/china-i…
2
3
12
4,519
ScottT retweeted
1 Feb 2025
In 1790, Jean Baptist Pointe Desable founded the city of Chicago. #BlackHistoryMonth
A THREAD
244
5,298
27,146
1,133,213
ScottT retweeted
30 Jan 2025
EXCLUSIVE: The father of the pilot onboard the American Airlines Plane identifies him as 28 Year-old- Sam Lilley. His father, who is also a pilot, says he was engaged to be married, started his training in 2019 and was the first officer on the flight Wednesday. @FOX5Atlanta
2,092
6,797
75,974
9,915,109
ScottT retweeted
12 Dec 2024
Mars! 140 million miles away.
Perseverance Rover looks back at the path it has traveled.
162
986
8,328
201,522
ScottT retweeted
7 Dec 2024
On the 83rd anniversary of the attack on Pearl Harbor, I am reflecting on my trip for the 75th anniversary when I had the great honor of traveling with dozens of WWII veterans for the commemoration ceremonies. We remember all those lost that day. youtu.be/EiV6PBxvTdg?si=Z5Yg…
99
1,191
8,680
89,641
Wow. Nice win. And I'd pay some coin for a throwback mini-helmet.
19 Oct 2024
Party like it’s 1924: Bowl-eligible Illinois throttles Michigan thechampaignroom.com/2024/10…
211
ScottT retweeted
7 Oct 2024
There is nothing about the history of the Steelers and Cowboys rivalry that necessitates Celine Dion’s involvement.
146
145
2,776
156,834
ScottT retweeted
5 Oct 2024
Thank you to my hometown paper, @JournalNow, for calling out the dangerous conspiracy theories being sadistically spread to take advantage of suffering people.
At a time when everyone should come together behind the response, these lies can discourage residents from getting aid.
13
177
366
16,093
ScottT retweeted
29 Sep 2024
Happy Hundredth Birthday to President Jimmy Carter--October 1, 2024:
585
4,869
34,216
1,093,266
ScottT retweeted
27 Sep 2024
God bless the soul who stopped their car & jumped a concrete barrier in Western NC to warn oncoming traffic that I-40 had just disappeared in front of them.
474
8,919
56,724
2,008,465
ScottT retweeted
22 Sep 2024
“He’s listed as day to day, but then again, aren’t we all?”
Vin Scully
52
743
6,071
206,125
Damn. Those kids have some pipes.
22 Sep 2024
just wow
89