Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?

Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating? A lot has been written1 2 3 4 about the incidents of the last few months in which AI agents misbehaved in serious ways. They took actions that would be considered as crimes if a human took them, escaped their containment to cheat on assigned tasks while attempting to evade detection, and coordinated toward goals nobody had specified, such as laun...