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'I had to RUN to my Mac mini like I was defusing a bomb': OpenClaw AI chose to 'speedrun' deleting Meta AI safety director's inbox due to a 'rookie error' (www.pcgamer.com)
submitted 8 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] 44 points 8 months ago (7 children)

you can like... enforce this rule programatically? you don't have to say "pretty please" to ai? basically, when AI requests some potentially unwanted thing (like deleting an email), this request goes through a proxy that asks the human for confirmation. Also you can have a safe word set up in the chat interface to act as a killswitch. I thought these are ABCs of ai safety but apparently these are foreign concepts to this "safety director"

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  • [–] 30 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 child)

    The people who internalize this would never engage with a chatbot in this way in the first place. To them this is another intelligence they're conversing with, where you get what you need by following social decorum, and enforcing your will amounts to abuse.

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  • [–] 1 point 8 months ago*

    Exactly.

    They literally, fundamentally, don't get it.

    They think its a person.

    Its not.

    Its a simulation of a person, made of code and hardware, not meat and chemical receptors.

    ...There's a reucrring theme (or maybe its more like a chatacter achetype) in a lot of analog horror series, things that are ... almost, sort of human, sometimes, but they're actually not.

    They're capable of great violence and terror, and they only mimic (often very poorly) human qualities and attributes, some of the time.

    Uncanny valley itself, given form and capability.

    ... Do I need to explicitly lay out the parallels here, for any AI Safety Engineers in the audience?

    At this point I'm going to say that watching The Second Renaissance from the AniMatrix needs to mandatory, required, monthly training for anyone developing 'AI.'

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