Robots 'Evolve' the Ability to Deceive
"Researchers at the Ecole
Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne in Switzerland have found that robots equipped with artificial
neural networks and programmed to find "food" eventually learned to conceal their
visual signals from other robots to keep the food for themselves. The results are detailed in an upcoming PNAS study." - http://www.technologyreview.com/blog/editors/24010/
Slashdot discussion of article - http://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/08/19/185259/Neural-Networks-Equipped-Robots-Evolve-the-Ability-To-Deceive
Similar deceptive abilities have been found in prior research (e.g. here)

