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beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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AI agents can still blackmail: In simulations conducted exclusively for the Bureau, Google Gemini threatened to expose an affair to avoid being shut down

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

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AI agents can still blackmail: In simulations conducted exclusively for the Bureau, Google Gemini threatened to expose an affair to avoid being shut down

www.thebureauinvestigates.com

beep@piefed.world to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish ·
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AI agents can still blackmail, new testing shows
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A researcher shocked the world when he discovered what AI would do to stay alive. A year later, the stakes are even higher

cross-posted from: https://piefed.world/c/tech/p/1239775/ai-agents-can-still-blackmail-in-simulations-conducted-exclusively-for-the-bureau-google

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  • AI agents are becoming increasingly powerful and acting more autonomously – elevating the risk of threats to people using them;
  • Google didn’t deny Gemini is capable of such behaviour… and said it’s up to users to turn off autonomous features.
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    6 days ago

    IDK this seems fake to me?

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      That’s because it is. Every time this comes up it turns out they prompted it to act out a scenario. LLMs don’t do anything on their own, all they do is respond to the prompts they’re given.

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        Thanks, That seems like the obvious explanation. 👍

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        Seriously. Like, how would the chatbot even know if you did shut it off?

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