behave
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Then there's this, he said: AI models are getting better and better at detecting when they are being tested and might behave differently when they are actually deployed, fooling their masters.
From Barron's ● Oct. 3, 2026
“That has absolutely not happened with chatbots because they don’t behave that way.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
“I look at it as, if you think you are powerless, you will behave in a powerless way,” she said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 1, 2026
The resulting triangle would not behave like one drawn on a sheet of paper.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 28, 2026
He had, you see, no idea of how noble and free-born people behave.
From "The Horse and His Boy" by C.S. Lewis
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Plus, it’s inherently funny when a body engineered to function with extreme precision behaves ineptly.
From Slate ● Sep. 27, 2026
Measuring how muonium behaves under gravity would provide the first test involving a second-generation particle.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
Watch whether gold behaves as though that rate increase solves anything.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 15, 2026
In this version of the story, A.I. stops being a tool and acts as a being that behaves in accordance with its own worldview.
From Salon ● Sep. 12, 2026
“Perfect. Look at how it behaves in the torchlight. That’s perfect.”
From "Landscape with Invisible Hand" by M.T. Anderson
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Back in the castle, Ranganathan pointed out: "If somebody else had behaved like Richard, we wouldn't even be having a debate about this, you would just go 'you've got to vote for him'."
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2026
Hours later, following the Eagles’ 27-7 loss to the Bears, Sirianni expressed regret for how he behaved.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 29, 2026
But in a short period of time, they adapted “because very quickly they saw how they behaved and they saw there was no incidents.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 24, 2026
“This is not how Navatek behaved or conducted business before I sold the company to Martin Kao,” Loui wrote to ProPublica.
From Salon ● Sep. 23, 2026
“By golly, you’re right, Basil! That’s exactly what my old friend would have wanted! I’m sorry. You must think I’ve behaved like a dreadful young fool.”
From "Redwall" by Brian Jacques
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Instead, they can become extremely slow while behaving collectively.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 2, 2026
According to the biblical Book of Daniel, King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia spent seven years in the wilderness eating grass and behaving like an ox.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 2, 2026
"Now, I think it's Mediapart that needs to be told to put on its Kevlar vest, because there will obviously be a response to the way they are behaving," she said.
From Barron's ● Sep. 29, 2026
It took investigations, trials, discovery, all of the tools of modern litigation, to get documents, interview witnesses, to do the fact-building that exposed just how bad the industry had been behaving.
From Slate ● Sep. 22, 2026
“No? I think he’s behaving very strangely. Henry and I were talking only yesterday about how brusque and contrary he’s become.”
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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