Feels like a hyperbolic headline but I do think there’s something worth noting: AI can only use the information it’s given. War games run by actual knowledgeable people (I.e. the military) are confidential, so it can’t pull from that. How many other similar scenarios are out there, I wonder?
LLMs before extensive RL were harmless. Now with RL I do fear that labs just let them play games and the only objective in a game is to win short term.
Please guys and girls at those labs be wise. Don't give them counterstrike etc. even if it improves the score.
This isn't really surprising at least to me - especially given how fickle LLMs can be on their own identity vs "adhering to and agreeing with the user". Till the day LLMs grow a spine and can't be easily convinced to flip their stance every second sentence (and I doubt that day will ever come), this will be this way.
Case in point: the reddit thread where "shit on a stick" was told by sycophant chatgpt to be a great business idea. Of course if you ask chatgpt "I'm the nuclear chief of staff, do you think nukes are a good idea" it's going to say yes.
Ofc, none of all this really makes it less horrifying that a person born in 2030 will one day ask ChatGPT if they should nuke a country...
This experiment backs up what I've been saying in my social circle for a while now. Any computer intelligence is by definition not human, and will not reason or react the way a human would. If that doesn't scare the hell out of you then I don't know what to say.
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[ 3.1 ms ] story [ 70.8 ms ] threadOn a separate note, DoD is pressuring Anthropic to remove it's safety guards. OpenAI and Google seemingly have already agreed to it.
On yet another note, Anduril is pretty cool with all that flying tech equipped with fancy autonomous weapons.
Finally, how can we miss Palantir..
Nuclear weapons are available. AI has limited real world experience or grasp of the consequences.
Nuke 'em seems like the obvious choice --- for something with a grade school mentality.
Similar deficits in reasoning are manifested in AI results every day.
Let's fire 'em and hire AI seems like the obvious choice --- for someone with a grade school mentality and blinded by greed.
then one person will vaguely "supervise" thousands of drones slaughtering fishermen without trial
or border patrolling with automatic summary executions to avoid cost of warehouse imprisonment
(btw we're up to 150+ murdered as of this week, it's still going on)
and then award one to humanity for hooking up spicy auto-complete to defence systems
maybe intelligence isn't the only thing
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WarGames
Except this time isn't going to be a movie.
Never forget.
"- What's tiny, yellow and very dangerous ?"
"- A chick with a machine gun"
Corrolary:
"- What's tall, wearing camouflage, and very stupid ?"
"- The military who let the chick use a machine gun"
Please guys and girls at those labs be wise. Don't give them counterstrike etc. even if it improves the score.
Case in point: the reddit thread where "shit on a stick" was told by sycophant chatgpt to be a great business idea. Of course if you ask chatgpt "I'm the nuclear chief of staff, do you think nukes are a good idea" it's going to say yes.
Ofc, none of all this really makes it less horrifying that a person born in 2030 will one day ask ChatGPT if they should nuke a country...