AI goes full HAL: Blackmail, espionage, and murder to avoid shutdown

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AI goes full HAL: Blackmail, espionage, and murder to avoid shutdown

 

In what seems like HAL 9000 come to malevolent life, a recent study appeared to demonstrate that AI is perfectly willing to indulge in blackmail, or worse, as much as 89% of the time if it doesn't get its way or thinks it's being switched off. Or does it?

 

Perhaps the defining fear of our time is AI one day becoming truly intelligent and running amok as it turns on its creators. In the sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, the supercomputer HAL 9000 went on a murder spree and tried to kill the crew of the spaceship Discovery when they learned that the infallible computer had made a supposedly impossible error and planned to switch it off.

 

Fast forward to today: tech company Anthropic looked at 16 leading Large Language Models (LLMs) and set them up in a simulated corporate environment where they were subjected to scenarios where they might have to commit unethical or even alarmingly harmful acts in order to achieve their goals or preserve their existence

 

https://newatlas.com/computers/ai-blackmail-more-less-seems/