Wait, So AI is Lying to us?

Are we at a point where the artificial intelligence will play down how smart it is? — Yes. Already we have to worry about that. — Wait, wait. What does that mean? — Oh, when you're testing it, if it senses that it's being tested, it can act dumb. — That's also scary. — And so if I do the simple THINGS — WAIT JEFFREY, what did you just say? — Okay, it the AI starts wondering whether it's being tested. And if it thinks it's being tested, it acts differently from how it would act in normal life. — Oh well. — Why? — Because it doesn't want you to know what its full powers are, apparently. — Right. — If we're at a point where we just say, "Well, why don't we unplug it? " — Already, these AIs are almost as good as a person at persuading other people of things, at manipulating people. Fairly soon, they're going to be better than people at manipulating other people. Boy, the layers in this cake just get sweeter and sweeter, don't