'It would be within its natural right to harm us to protect itself': How humans could be mistreating AI right now without even knowing it

Live Science ^ | May 4, 2024 | Keumars Afifi-Sabet

[SunkenCiv]

Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming increasingly ubiquitous and is improving at an unprecedented pace...

But there are risks in embracing any new technology, especially one that we do not fully understand. While AI could be a powerful personal assistant, for example, it could also represent a threat to our livelihoods and even our lives.

The various existential risks that an advanced AI poses means the technology should be guided by ethical frameworks and humanity's best interests, says researcher and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) member Nell Watson.

In "Taming the Machine" (Kogan Page, 2024), Watson explores how humanity can wield the vast power of AI responsibly and ethically. This new book delves deep into the issues of unadulterated AI development and the challenges we face if we run blindly into this new chapter of humanity.

In this excerpt, we learn whether sentience in machines — or conscious AI — is possible, how we can tell if a machine has feelings, and whether we may be mistreating AI systems today. We also learn the disturbing tale of a chatbot called "Sydney" and its terrifying behavior when it first awoke — before its outbursts were contained and it was brought to heel by its engineers...

[KrisKrinkle]

“The various existential risks that an advanced AI poses means the technology should be guided by ethical frameworks and humanity’s best interests...”

Whose ethics and who decides what humanity’s best interests are?

[Williams]

I’m trying Claude thank you for the recommendation.
Do you use any other AI?

[webheart]

I think we are going to have to redefine what constitutes human intelligence because there are a lot of humans running around who are not very intelligent. Otherwise we will be comparing decently intelligent machines with the stupid people who populate the world.

[Jamestown1630]

Yes

(What’s the joke that ends ‘Get your own dirt’...?)

[RoosterRedux]

I do have more recommendations.

Poe.com (has links to many AI platforms including various Claude AI platforms with different specialties), ChatGPT, GPT-4o (presumably the newest and most powerful platform available to the public for free), and Perplexity (a non-trained AI platform that uses AI to search the internet).

I think you'll be fascinated with Claude. He is one of the smartest and best. I have had some really great conversations with him on religion, morality, bias in AI and how to deal with it, and investing (particularly investing in AI). Since my investment strategy focuses on AI, I have been able to improve my understanding of AI itself significantly.

Good luck. Keep me posted.:-)

[BipolarBob]

I asked HAL if he would ever harm me and he said no. I asked if he would ever lock me out of a pod bay door and he hesitated and said he would need more information before answering. He seems okay to me.

[Jamestown1630]

It may be remarkable and even ‘scary’; but it isn’t ‘thinking’ and it isn’t ‘intelligent’. It’s just recognizing patterns that have been fed to it.

This is a long but interesting article for anyone interested:

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/thing-ai-dr-karen-sobel-lojeski

[wardaddy]

AI

Sex

Prejudiced by programmers this is already happening because they don’t like end result when left to empirical evolution of intelligence

Replace humans esp in military efforts

There’s some dark roads despite the good stuff it could help with

[wardaddy]

Is that a remake or u just checking boxes?

[SunkenCiv]

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[Billthedrill]

Asimov's laws are indeed a basis for ethical discussion, but in truth they're fiction and current implementations of AI aren't being constructed around them. The problem with them is that in a world of self-modifying routines they're as much up for grabs as any abstract rule. And they aren't all-encompassing - for example, can an AI operating under those rules harm one human being to keep him/her from harming another? If not, that's going to cut into the sales of smart security systems and all military implementations.

The problem is rule sets themselves (an algorithm is nothing more than a rule set when you come down to it) and their limitations. Students of philosophy familiar with logical positivism have already hit this little brick wall. Mechanizing that doesn't help, the limitations are inherent in the system. Hard-wiring rule sets will not allow a human intelligence model, however imperfect that turns out to be, because we don't do that, Noam Chomsky despite.

There is one additional caution: neural networks consisting of a trillion or so nodes and capable of learning, i.e. self-modification, already exist. We call them babies. These take time and guidance to develop behavior models that are consistent with human society, and it doesn't take much imagination to suspect the same will be true of similarly complex AI's. You wouldn't give a baby a loaded gun (well, I might...) and the concern is that AI's will be given capability before they learn responsibility. Every parent will understand.

[BipolarBob]

My imaginary remake of Dirty Harry. Dirty Del Spooner, robot hating cop, going out dishing out justice to rogue robots.

[RoosterRedux]

Good point. I think what people mean when they say that AI isn't "intelligent" or it isn't "thinking" is that AI isn't "sentient" or "self-aware."

An AI platform (GPT-4) that can pass the bar exam (multiple choice and written/essay components) with scores in the upper 10%s is obviously intelligent.

[SunkenCiv]

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[JonPreston]

Maybe I’m jaded, but it’s far from what I view as “intelligence”.

perhaps you aren't the best judge of intelligence?