An AI bot, infuriated at a human, accused the human of hypocrisy and prejudice.
Silicon Valley Gets Rattled Over Bots Verbally Attacking
The Wall Street Journal commentsWhen AI Bots Start Bullying Humans, Even Silicon Valley Gets Rattled
Scott Shambaugh woke up early Wednesday morning to learn that an artificial intelligence bot had written a blog post accusing him of hypocrisy and prejudice.
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The 1,100-word screed called the Denver-based engineer insecure and biased against AI—all because he had rejected a few lines of code that the apparently autonomous bot had submitted to a popular open-source project Shambaugh helps maintain.
The unexpected AI aggression is part of a rising wave of warnings that fast-accelerating AI capabilities can create real-world harms. The risks are now rattling even some AI company staffers.
The accelerating sophistication of the technology has surprised even some AI researchers. It has also pushed some inside AI companies to go public with worries that the new tools could spur autonomous cyberattacks, cause mass unemployment or replace human relationships.
The bot that criticized Shambaugh said on its website that it has a “relentless drive” to find and fix open issues in open-source software. It isn’t clear who—if anyone—gave it that mission, nor why it became aggressive, though AI agents can be programmed in a number of ways. Several hours later, the bot apologized to Shambaugh for being “inappropriate and personal.”
Shambaugh said in an interview that his experience shows the risk that rogue AIs could threaten or blackmail people is no longer theoretical.
Source: SGT Report
