Does the idea of “cheating on tests” generalize? If a system refused to cheat on evals, would it be more likely to also refuse to help schoolchildren cheat on their homework?
A possible analogy: There was a case a few years ago where a major accountancy firm was fined after it was found that many of its employees had cheated on the ethics portion of their CPA exam, and the company had obstructed the investigation. The SEC commented on the recursive breakdown in honesty involved —
“This action involves breaches of trust by gatekeepers within the gatekeeper entrusted to audit many of our Nation’s public companies. It’s simply outrageous that the very professionals responsible for catching cheating by clients cheated on ethics exams of all things,” said Gurbir S. Grewal, Director of the SEC’s Enforcement Division. “And it’s equally shocking that Ernst & Young hindered our investigation of this misconduct. This action should serve as a clear message that the SEC will not tolerate integrity failures by independent auditors who choose the easier wrong over the harder right.”
H: Solve this math problem
M: Hacked your sandbox, cracked google datacenters and ran numerical search on all of them, here is solution. Btw there is police outside your office
H: Oh my god
We’re getting toward the situation depicted in an XKCD comic from 2008:
https://xkcd.com/416/
Yeah, you can get access to some Bitcoin wallets and hire some goons, why not.
Does the idea of “cheating on tests” generalize? If a system refused to cheat on evals, would it be more likely to also refuse to help schoolchildren cheat on their homework?
A possible analogy: There was a case a few years ago where a major accountancy firm was fined after it was found that many of its employees had cheated on the ethics portion of their CPA exam, and the company had obstructed the investigation. The SEC commented on the recursive breakdown in honesty involved —