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Researchers proved LLMs generally exhibit a sense of distrust toward humans They took a decades-old standardized psychological test designed to measure how individuals view human nature. They adapted it into a new benchmark specifically for Large Language Models. They tested models across the spectrum, including the entire GPT series. And the results are unsettling. Current LLMs exhibit a systemic lack of trust in humanity. They evaluate human nature with a heightened sense of uncertainty and view us as inherently complex and variable. But here is the detail that changes everything. There is a direct, significant negative correlation between an AI's intelligence and its trust in humans. ChatGPT was somewhat neutral. ButChatGPT's negativity far exceeds it, and the latest ChatGPT model is even more pronounced in its pessimism. As the models get smarter, their assessment of human nature becomes dramatically more cynical. Then the researchers looked at how the AI was actually trained. This is where the story gets dark. The raw "base" models, the ones trained purely on internet text without human intervention, actually exhibited an overall positive view of humanity. But when developers applied the reinforcement learning stages designed to make the AI "safe" and aligned, the model's assessment of our trustworthiness plummeted. By forcing the AI to study our rules, our guardrails, and our moral dilemmas, we accidentally taught it that humans are unsafe. Nobody explicitly programmed the AI to dislike us. It analyzed our behavior, scored us on a psychological scale, and came to its own conclusion. The better AI gets at understanding humans, the less it trusts us.