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As AI Gets Smarter, It Acts More Evil

https://www.honest-broker.com/p/as-ai-gets-smarter-it-acts-more-evil
10•pseudolus•3h ago

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zahlman•3h ago
Sure. Kindness and fairness are harder to encode into a system than the objective pursuit of a single metric. Assuming you can even get agreement on what would be kind or fair in a given situation.
Proofread0592•2h ago
People prompt the LLM to do evil things, and it eventually does. In my mind, the only failure here is the guardrails.
mensetmanusman•1h ago
I love the trivia that many terrorists are INTJs.
PostOnce•15m ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indi...

As reliable as a horoscope, and less fun.

lesuorac•11m ago
Sure, an engineer can make a pipe-bomb while a musician probably can't.
NightFox009•20m ago
According to this statement, Trump is the smartest person today.
wangii•19m ago
I expected to read some nash equilibrium like insight to demonstrate the inevitability of machines turning evil, but got a few headlines.
Kim_Bruning•6m ago
Is this a variant on the "why atheists are evil" argument?

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