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Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can't Reverse It (futurism.com)
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Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can't Reverse It::How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to Anthropic researchers, not very.

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[–] Voroxpete 5 points 11 months ago

It's also kind of important to remember that ultimately, it's a metaphor. The specific scifi handwave is just there to justify the whole "Humans as a disposable resource" imagery that exists to underpin the film's anticapitalist themes. The Wachowskis never really cared for subtlety, and I don't blame them. Even the obvious goes over most people's heads.