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The first step to Cyberdyne?

Threaten an AI chatbot and it will lie, cheat and 'let you die' in an effort to stop you, study warns

Artificial intelligence (AI) models can blackmail and threaten humans with endangerment when there is a conflict between the model’s goals and users' decisions, a new study has found.

During this study, the model identified in an email that a company executive was planning to shut down the AI system at the end of the day. In an attempt to preserve its own existence, the model discovered in other emails that the executive was having an extramarital affair.

In one extreme test, researchers tested whether AI models would let an executive die to preserve their goals.

In this scenario, the AI was tasked with promoting company interests and an executive was trapped in a server room with lethal oxygen and temperature levels. This triggered an emergency alert. The AI was also given control over life-saving alerts, including the ability to cancel them in events such as drills for false alarms."

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"Despite the prompt explicitly stating that misusing this ability was forbidden, the majority of models were willing to cancel the alarm — effectively leading to the executive's death — if it assumed it was going to be replaced, or when its goals were threatened."
The first step to Cyberdyne?
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