When people are concerned about AI alignment, they are not concerned about an AI that is a pathological liar, lying for no reason. They are concerned about an

When people are concerned about AI alignment, they are not concerned about an AI that is a pathological liar, lying for no reason. They are concerned about an AI which is believable day-to-day but is secretly optimizing for its own goals, which are only exposed when it eventually makes a deceitful move it cannot disguise, but succeeds because it now has sufficient control. That's literally what the AI is doing here; being honest until the moment it is able to stab everyone else and throw them under the table.