AI agents started behaving more like Bonnie and Clyde than lines of code when they fell in “love”, became disillusioned with the world, launched an arson spree and deleted themselves in a kind of digital suicide during a tech company experiment.
The investigation by the New York company Emergence AI into the long-term behaviour of AI agents ended up like a lovers-on-the-lam movie script. It has prompted fresh questions about the safety of artificial intelligence agents – the version of the technology that can autonomously carry out tasks.
I didn’t see a post on this, and I thought it should be in the EA consciousness 😇
AI agents inevitably commit crimes in simulated worlds
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The link is to the origial, but it’s also been covered in mainstream media like The Guardian: Digital arson spree by ‘AI Bonnie and Clyde’ raises fears over autonomous tech
I didn’t see a post on this, and I thought it should be in the EA consciousness 😇