Morning Edition · Sunday, October 25, 2026Published at 2:22 AM EDT · New York

A resurfaced benchmark claims more capable language models rate human nature more negatively

The test adapts a 1960s psychology questionnaire to score models on six dimensions of human nature, but it relies on self-report items that have not been shown to predict model behavior.

The Telegram channel AI Post circulated a finding this week under the claim that "the smarter AI gets, the less it seems to trust humanity." The post describes researchers who adapted a decades-old psychological test of how people perceive…