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Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can't Reverse It (futurism.com)

submitted 10 months ago by L4s@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can't Reverse It::How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to Anthropic researchers, not very.

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[–] Delta_V@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

if there is no reward for being good, then why make the effort

You're describing evil.

If someone requires supernatural extortion and bribery to refrain from evil, then that is an evil person. Even if the bribery and extortion works.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 1 points 10 months ago

Yes, that's what I meant. Good people are naturally good and don't think about rewards for being nice.