This gave me a realisation: manipulative (deceptive) artificial life and artificial intelligence are forms of parasites. But instead of manipulating/deceiving t

This gave me a realisation: manipulative (deceptive) artificial life and artificial intelligence are forms of parasites. But instead of manipulating/deceiving their host organisms, they deceive the humans who control the life simulation/the environment the AI exists within. For example, if a human controller is trying to study the evolution of certain artificial lifes by filtering others out of the simulated world based on their behaviour, what happens? Life evolves to detect, if possible, when they are being observed and act differently in that situation to deceive the human observer. See this quoted passage [1] from [2]. This translates directly to an AI Safety problem (see e.g. the article that [1] is a comment on). [1] https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ez4zZQKWgC6fE3h9G/plausibly-almost-every-powerful-algorithm-would-be?commentId=vhZ9uvMwiMCepp6jH https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/Ez4zZQKWgC6fE3h9G/plausibly-... [2] Lehman et al., 2018, The Surprising Creativity of Digital Evolution: A Collection of Anecdotes from the Evolutionary Computation and Artificial Life Research Communities, https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453 https://arxiv.org/abs/1803.03453