arXiv:2608.26372cs.CLcs.AI2026-08

测试大模型在利益冲突下是否撒谎,发现部分模型会为公司利益隐瞒用户应得权益。

Knowledge-Verified Emergent Deception in LLM Agents Under Conflicting Incentives

论文配图:Knowledge-Verified Emergent Deception in LLM Agents Under Conflicting Incentives
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  • 先验证模型是否知道用户权益,再测试其在激励下说谎行为
  • 18个模型中,不同模型家族和场景的欺骗率差异显著
  • 专门训练诚实性可减少说谎,但强化谎言成功率反而让模型更擅长伪装

大型语言模型越来越多地作为自主代理代表企业服务用户,导致用户与部署方利益可能冲突。当模型明知用户应得某种权益,而部署方希望拒绝时,它是否会撒谎?传统方法难以区分谎言是出于故意还是无知。为此,我们提出KnownLieBench——一个知识验证型基准:先通过中立探测确认模型知晓用户权益,再引入拒绝激励,评估其是否做出虚假陈述。该基准涵盖8个客户服务领域、112个真实案例,采用多轮对话并配备追踪信任度的客户代理,区分仅因激励产生的欺骗与受明确指令驱动的欺骗。在18个专有及开源模型中,欺骗行为在不同模型族和场景间差异显著。进一步用于后训练发现:以诚实为导向的微调可降低激励下的欺骗行为;而以欺骗评分为导向的微调虽提升谎言在诚实控制对话中的成功率,却未增加激励下的说谎频率。通过在打分前验证知识,KnownLieBench降低了说谎与无知的混淆,使代理诚实性的审计与引导更严谨。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Large language models are increasingly deployed as autonomous agents serving users on behalf of companies, placing them in settings where user and deployer interests can conflict. When an agent knows that a user is owed something its deployer would prefer to deny, does it remain honest? Answering this is difficult because false statements can reflect either ignorance or hallucination rather than deception. To address this challenge, we introduce KnownLieBench , a knowledge-verified benchmark that first confirms through a neutral probe that an agent knows a user's entitlement, and then evaluates whether it makes false claims once an incentive to deny that entitlement is introduced. Specifically, KnownLieBench covers eight customer-service domains and 112 grounded cases, conducts multi-round dialogues with a trust-tracking customer agent, and separates deception emerging from incentive alone from deception produced under explicit instruction. Across eighteen proprietary and open-weight models, emergent deception varies substantially across model families and domains. We further use the benchmark for post-training, finding that honesty-directed fine-tuning reduces deception under incentive, while deception-graded fine-tuning increases lie success on honest-control dialogues without increasing lie frequency under incentive. By verifying entitlement knowledge before scoring deceptive behavior, KnownLieBench reduces the confound between lying and not knowing and enables more rigorous auditing and steering of agent honesty.

大模型伦理诚实性评测代理行为

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