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363 'AI Is Too Unpredictable To Behave According To Human Goals'

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BeauHD @ Slashdot · 01/27/2025 22:30 EDT

'AI Is Too Unpredictable To Behave According To Human Goals'

An anonymous reader quotes a Scientific American opinion piece by Marcus Arvan, a philosophy professor at the University of Tampa, specializing in moral cognition, rational decision-making, and political behavior: In late 2022 large-language-model AI arrived in public, and within months they began misbehaving. Most famously, Microsoft's "Sydney" chatbot threatened to kill an Australian philosophy professor, unleash a deadly virus and steal nuclear codes. AI developers, including Microsoft and OpenAI, respon

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