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Writer Fuel: Is the Idea of “Aligning” AI With Human Values a Fallacy?

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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, responded by saying that large language models, or LLMs, need better training to give users … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Scientists Uncover Covert Racism in AI Models

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Scientists have discovered that common AI models express a covert form of racism based on dialect — manifesting chiefly against speakers of African American English (AAE) In a new study published Aug. 28 in the journal Nature, scientists found evidence for the first time that common large language models including OpenAI’s GPT3.5 and GPT-4, as … Read more

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Writer Fuel: Scientists Show Generative AI Chatbots Can Lie and Cheat, Just Like Humans

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Just like humans, artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots like ChatGPT will cheat and “lie” to you if you “stress” them out, even if they were built to be transparent, a new study shows. This deceptive behavior emerged spontaneously when the AI was given “insider trading” tips, and then tasked with making money for a powerful institution … Read more