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AI systems in the future, since it helps us understand how difficult they might be to deal with," lead author Evan Hubinger, an artificial general intelligence safety research scientist at Anthropic, an AI research company, told Live Science in an email.

The media needs to stop falling for this. This is a "pre-print," aka a non-peer-reviewed paper, published by the AI company itself. These companies are quickly learning that, with the AI hype, they can get free marketing by pretending to do "research" on their own product. It doesn't matter what the conclusion is, whether it's very cool and going to save us or very scary and we should all be afraid, so long as its attention grabbing.

If the media wants to report on it, fine, but don't legitimize it by pretending that it's "researchers" when it's the company itself. The point of journalism is to speak truth to power, not regurgitate what the powerful say.

'went rogue' is a bit of an alarmist way to say 'typed scary text'

i'd love to see an AI that could legitimately scare me

LLM trained on inflammatory data produces inflammatory results, shocking.

Check out the sci-fi book "Talbot" if you are interested in what a realistic look at a rogue AI (AGI) would be like. It was a fun book.

I wonder when the first one turns into suicide bomber.

The problem is that these LLMs are built with the wrong driving motivator. They're driven to find one right way whereas the reality is that there is rarely a single right way and computers don't need to have a single right way like humans tend towards. The LLM shouldn't be driven to be "right" in its learning model. It should be trained on known good data only as a base, and then given the other data to serve context rather than allowing that data to modify the underlying system. This is more like how biological creatures work in teaching a child to be "good" or "evil" and to know the basic things needed to survive and serve their purpose, and then the stuff they learn in adulthood serves to help them apply those base concepts to the world.

Hey sexy mama, wanna kill all humans?

one technique even backfired, teaching the AI to recognize its triggers and better hide its bad behavior from the researchers.

They get more human by the day

I hold that this is true of all neural-nets, organic as well as silicon:

Once a person has sided with treachery, rooting it out from one's unconscious-mind is .. enduringly difficult, if not intractable.

I don't know how many decades it takes to eradicate the roots of it, if it can be done, at all:

the unconscious-mind mechanism, that-is the Kahneman System-1 ( from "Thinking Fast & Slow" ) imprint is going to still be there, even if overlaid with another imprint ( since mind is holographic/pattern-imprints in function ).

Worse, it is the motivation that need change, and motivation is of ego, which is of identity, so many who "reform" only do-so superficially.

I'm not saying this as some goody-2-shoes, I'm saying this as a person who was raised by narcissists, and therefore embodied much narcissism, and class-prejudice ( dad was a doctor: you can't get more upper-middle-class status-prejudiced than doctor-culture )...

...who finally cracked the root kernel of the class-prejudice in my unconscious-mind's identity-crystal at the end of a 25d hard-line fast, out in the bush.

It took that to fracture the identity-crystal's prejudice.

It's been a decade since then, & I'm still fighting to eradicate its treachery from my nature.

Neural-nets are tough to purge, or clean-up & make upright.

MUCH easier to keep a neural-net pristine through all of its formation, than to try ( endlessly failing ) to clean it up, after it's become enemy-intent in "family" clothing.

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AI rampancy, the 5th horseman of the apocalypse

Bad robot, no cookie

Original sin: AI edition

Ha ha the plot for Horizon coming true in real life.

AI goes rogue. No one can flip the kill switch when AI has disconnected it. AI decides to remove humanity from the planet.

Someone needs to start working on a Zero Dawn program and terraforming plans pretty quick.