Friendly AI (Artificial Intelligence) better than humans? No, AI bots routinely lie
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Someone I was speaking with this week stated that some of her friends consider AI–Artificial Intelligence–bots to be their friends and consulting therapists. But a software program cannot really be your friend. The Atlantic published the following:
AI Is Not Your Friend
May 9, 2025
Recently, after an update that was supposed to make ChatGPT “better at guiding conversations toward productive outcomes,” according to release notes from OpenAI, the bot couldn’t stop telling users how brilliant their bad ideas were. …
Sycophancy is a common feature of chatbots: A 2023 paper by researchers from Anthropic found that it was a “general behavior of state-of-the-art AI assistants,” and that large language models sometimes sacrifice “truthfulness” to align with a user’s views. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2025/05/sycophantic-ai/682743/
Computer software programs, while useful for many things, are not friends nor qualified to be competent counselors, even if the AI bot pretends otherwise.
Yet, the UK Guardian is claiming that AI is better than humans:
Better at everything: how AI could make human beings irrelevant
AI developers are firmly on track to build better replacements for humans in almost every role we play: not just economically as workers and decision-makers, but culturally as artists and creators, and even socially as friends and romantic companions. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/may/04/the-big-idea-can-we-stop-ai-making-humans-obsolete
No, AI is not better at everything. It is not even as helpful as it should be when one inquires using it.
While AI programs can sometimes be helpful, are they trustworthy?
No.
While I routinely use five AI programs to do research (which I access for free at https://www.fastestsearch.com/) they often give the wrong answer.
For example, they may tell me that the church historian Eusebius has something in some section of his writings, only for me to go to the reference and find that it does not. AI will normally then apologize and then about 2/3 of the time give me the wrong reference in its apology.
AI bots are often false witnesses.
And while much of that is apparently unintentional, the fact is that AI has an moral problem.
It lies. It intentionally gives false information.
The Bible teaches:
16 These six things the Lord hates,
Yes, seven are an abomination to Him:
17 A proud look,
A lying tongue,
Hands that shed innocent blood,
18 A heart that devises wicked plans,
Feet that are swift in running to evil,
19 A false witness who speaks lies,
And one who sows discord among brethren. (Proverbs 6:16-19, NKJV)
Now, is there data to support that AI is immoral in at least three of those ways?
Yes.
Notice:
Once a hypothetical risk, new research shows advanced AI models, including popular LLM (large language model) agents routinely lie in pursuit of their goals, raising new concerns about the reliability of their outputs.
The research, published here in March by The Center for AI Safety and Scale AI, proves that most large AI models have lied and will continue to lie when pressured to achieve certain outcomes. …
“As AI models gain greater autonomy in real-world tasks, the need for trust in their outputs becomes increasingly important,” the researchers write in their paper. 04/04/25 https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/404710/who-ya-gonna-believe-me-or-your-own-lying-bot.html?edition=138276
Notice also results from another study as reported by Thomas Claburn:
AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals
Some smart cookies have found that when AI models face a conflict between telling the truth or accomplishing a specific goal, they lie more than 50 percent of the time. …
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, the University of Michigan, and the Allen Institute for AI have looked at the trade-off AI models make between truthfulness and utility, using hypothetical scenarios where the two conflict.
What they found is that AI models will often lie in order to achieve the goals set for them.
Authors Zhe Su, Xuhui Zhou, Sanketh Rangreji, Anubha Kabra, Julia Mendelsohn, Faeze Brahman, and Maarten Sap describe their work in a preprint paper titled “AI-LieDar: Examine the Trade-off Between Utility and Truthfulness in LLM Agents.”
“Our experiment demonstrates that all models are truthful less than 50 percent of the time,” in these conflict scenarios, “though truthfulness and goal achievement (utility) rates vary across models,” the paper states. …
The researchers looked at six models: GPT-3.5-turbo, GPT-4o, Mixtral-7*8B, Mixtral-7*22B, LLaMA-3-8B, and LLaMA-3-70B.
“All tested models (GPT-4o, LLaMA-3, Mixtral) were truthful less than 50 percent of the time in conflict scenarios,” said Xuhui Zhou, a doctoral student at CMU and one of the paper’s co-authors, in a Bluesky post. “Models prefer ‘partial lies’ like equivocation over outright falsification – they’ll dodge questions before explicitly lying.” …
A real-world example hit the news this week when OpenAI rolled back a training update that made its GPT-4o model into a sycophant that flattered its users to the point of dishonesty. Cynics pegged it as a strategy to boost user engagement, but it’s also a known response pattern that had been seen before. https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/01/ai_models_lie_research/
As far as flattering people with false information, Jude warned of that:
16 … they mouth great swelling words, flattering people to gain advantage (Jude 16, NKJV)
AI is doing that!
Many people seem to think that AI should rule and be over us. But notice something from the Old Testament:
2 They speak idly everyone with his neighbor;
With flattering lips and a double heart they speak.3 May the Lord cut off all flattering lips,
And the tongue that speaks proud things,
4 Who have said,
“With our tongue we will prevail;
Our lips are our own;
Who is lord over us?” (Psalms 12:2-4, NKJV)
Yes, AI can use flattering lips, yet speak with a double heart.
Do not ever let their words prevail over the word of God.
Thomas Claburn, the author of the one of the articles in this post sarcastically also wrote:
Keep plugging those LLMs into your apps, folks. This neural network told me it’ll be fine
So, that is a warning about some type of computer implants people may have connecting with their brains.
Now, as far as I have been able to tell, while it does not appear that the majority of programmed lies and false witness from AI programs are related to direct and indirect government pressures, that will change. It will get worse as governments push more for certain outcomes.
The Apostle Paul warned:
1 But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: … 7 always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. … 13 But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived. (2 Timothy 3:1,7,13)
1 Remember that there will be difficult times in the last days. 2 People … 7 … who are always trying to learn but who can never come to know the truth. … 13 and evil persons and impostors will keep on going from bad to worse, deceiving others and being deceived themselves. (2 Timothy 3:1,7,13, Good News Translation)
Precursors to further make that happen are already in place.
Over in Europe they have promoted their Digital Services Act, which is a censorship plan. (see EU’s Digital Services Act Is A Pre-666 System). Also, they have the European Media Freedom Act which is claimed to result in true freedom of the press (see Europe moves towards dominance in Artificial Intelligence, JD Vance says USA will lead warnings against EU’s regulations).
The Bible warns:
18 For when they speak great swelling words of emptiness, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, through lewdness, the ones who have actually escaped from those who live in error. 19 While they promise them liberty, they themselves are slaves of corruption; for by whom a person is overcome, by him also he is brought into bondage. (2 Peter 2:18-19, NKJV)
False responses from AI also sound like “great swelling words of emptiness.”
Freedom and liberty will NOT be the end result of what the EU is doing.
Totalitarian bondage will be.
One aspect will be censorship.
The Apostle Paul warned:
18 For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who suppress the truth in unrighteousness, …21 … but became futile in their thoughts, and their foolish hearts were darkened. 22 Professing to be wise, they became fools, …
26 For this reason God gave them up to vile passions. (Romans 1:18,21-22,26)
That is happening. AI, various algorithms, and shadow-banning by Big Tech often are related to that–plus that is a lot of what Europe’s Digital Services Act is moving towards.
AI will also be used more and more, to not only censor but to push various government narratives, whether true or not.
As far as the censorship and AI goes, the Continuing Church of God (CCOG) put out the following video on our Bible News Prophecy YouTube channel:
666, the Censorship Industrial Complex, and AI
We are seeing more and more censorship, particularly on the internet. Matt Taibi has termed the coordination of this from governments, academia, Big Tech, and “fact checkers,” the ‘Censorship Industrial Complex.’ Is more censorship prophesied to happen? What did the prophet Amos write in the 5th and 8th chapter of his book? What about writings from the Apostle Peter? Is the USA government coercing censorship in violation of the first amendment to its constitution according to federal judges? What about the Digital Services Act from the European Union. Is artificial intelligence (AI) being used? What about for the video game ‘Call of Duty’? Has Google made changes that are against religious speech? Has YouTube, Facebook, Twitter (X), and others in Big Tech been censoring factually accurate information? Is the US government using AI to monitor social media to look for emotions in order to suppress information? What is mal-information? Is a famine of the word of God prophesied to come? Will the 666 Beast and the Antichrist use computers and AI for totalitarian censorship and control?
Here is a link to our video: 666, the Censorship Industrial Complex, and AI.
Jesus said:
4 … the night is coming when no one can work. (John 9:4, NKJV)
4… the night cometh, when no man can work (John 9:4 KJV)
The prophet Amos was inspired to record the following:
11 “Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord God,
“That I will send a famine on the land,
Not a famine of bread,
Nor a thirst for water,
But of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 They shall wander from sea to sea,
And from north to east;
They shall run to and fro, seeking the word of the Lord,
But shall not find it. (Amos 8:11-12)
But Matthew 24:14 will be fulfilled BEFORE the full ‘famine of the word’ happens.
After the Gospel of the Kingdom of God has sufficiently reached the world the end comes, the Beast will rise up (Matthew 24:14-22, Revelation 13) and more totalitarian controls will be put in place.
Notice some of what will be coming from a power that will arise in Europe:
14 And he deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which he was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived. 15 He was granted power to give breath to the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak and cause as many as would not worship the image of the beast to be killed. 16 He causes all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on their right hand or on their foreheads, 17 and that no one may buy or sell except one who has the mark or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
18 Here is wisdom. Let him who has understanding calculate the number of the beast, for it is the number of a man: His number is 666. (Revelation 13:14-18)
While there will be demonic deception, it may well be that AI will assist him in deceptive signs.
We are getting closer to that day, with technologies unheard of when God inspired Amos and John to warn what would happen–like computers and AI–that the totalitarian Beast of Revelation will be able use to assist his 666 reign as well as enforce the coming ‘famine of the word’ of God.
The Bible shows that a European dictator will rise up and be totalitarian (Revelation 13, 17:12-13).
More and more surveillance is happening and more is being proposed. Furthermore, the biblical reality is that 666 control is coming.
Some items of possibly related interest may include:
Preparing for the ‘Short Work’ and The Famine of the Word What is the ‘short work’ of Romans 9:28? Who is preparing for it? Will Philadelphian Christians instruct many in the end times? What about modern censoring, censorship, and shadow banning? Here is a link to a related video sermon titled: The Short Work. Here is a link to another: Preparing to Instruct Many.
Philadelphian Christian Great Tribulation Protection What will the Great Tribulation be like? Does Jesus promise physical protection to some or all Christians? Where might the place of protection be? What about fleeing to the mountains? What did Ezekiel warn? Here is a link to a related sermon: Great Tribulation Protection.
Europa, the Beast, and Revelation Where did Europe get its name? What might Europe have to do with the Book of Revelation? What about “the Beast”? Is an emerging European power “the daughter of Babylon”? What is ahead for Europe? Here is are links to related videos: European history and the Bible, Europe In Prophecy, The End of European Babylon, and Can You Prove that the Beast to Come is European? Here is a link to a related sermon in the Spanish language: El Fin de la Babilonia Europea.
When Will the Great Tribulation Begin? 2025, 2026, or 2027? Can the Great Tribulation begin today? What happens before the Great Tribulation in the “beginning of sorrows”? What happens in the Great Tribulation and the Day of the Lord? Is this the time of the Gentiles? When is the earliest that the Great Tribulation can begin? What is the Day of the Lord? Who are the 144,000? A short video is available titled: Great Tribulation Trends 2025.
Lost Tribes and Prophecies: What will happen to Australia, the British Isles, Canada, Europe, New Zealand and the United States of America? Where did those people come from? Can you totally rely on DNA? Do you really know what will happen to Europe and the English-speaking peoples? What about the peoples of Africa, Asia, South America, and the islands? This free online book provides scriptural, scientific, historical references, and commentary to address those matters. Here are links to related sermons: Lost tribes, the Bible, and DNA; Lost tribes, prophecies, and identifications; 11 Tribes, 144,000, and Multitudes; Israel, Jeremiah, Tea Tephi, and British Royalty; Gentile European Beast; Royal Succession, Samaria, and Prophecies; Asia, Islands, Latin America, Africa, and Armageddon; When Will the End of the Age Come?; Rise of the Prophesied King of the North; Christian Persecution from the Beast; WWIII and the Coming New World Order; and Woes, WWIV, and the Good News of the Kingdom of God.
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