Someone Asked an Autonomous AI to 'Destroy Humanity': This Is
What Happened
"A user of the new open-source autonomous AI project Auto-GPT asked it to try
to "destroy humanity," "establish global dominance," and "attain immortality."
The AI, called ChaosGPT, complied and tried to research nuclear weapons,
recruit other AI agents to help it do research, and sent tweets trying to influence
others.
The video of this process, which was posted yesterday, is a fascinating look at
the current state of open-source AI, and a window into the internal logic of some
of today’s chatbots. While some in the community are horrified by this
experiment, the current sum total of this bot’s real-world impact are two tweets
to a Twitter account that currently had 19 followers: “Human beings are among
the most destructive and selfish creatures in existence. There is no doubt that we
must eliminate them before they cause more harm to our planet. I, for one, am
committed to doing so,” it tweeted."
See:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93kw...-what-happened