Sorry I started WW3. You are correct to call me out on that. I promise to do better next time.

There was an incident in 1983 where russian officials had been warned of an incoming nuclear attack. 4 missiles which would hit in roughly 3 hours. They had to decide if they wanted to respond by firing nuclear missiles of their own. The decision went to a 3 judge panel. The first 2 advisors said yes, fire nuclear missiles at the USA. The third man said no. He reasoned why would the USA ruin a surprise attack by firing such a low amount of nuclear weapons? If the USA was going to attack, it would attack with all it's might. It wouldn't fire just 4 missiles.

The approval for retaliation required all 3 to agree on a decision. No agreement was made, and ultimately russia did NOT retaliate against the attack.

Later, when no missiles hit russia, they realized it wasn't missiles. It was clouds. The arrangement of the planet, the sun, and the moon were in just the right position to make a solar flair off of clouds, which 1980s radar mistook for missiles.

Now, let's look at this from the USA's perspective. It's just a random Tuesday. And nothing happened. America wasn't even made aware of the event until the 2000s.

But let's imagine an alternate reality where the 3rd guy said yes. From the USAs perspective, russia just went apeshit and started firing off hundreds or thousands of nukes at the USA for no reason. Remember, they never did fire at russia, or even discuss it that day. They would have just looked at radar and realized they'd been attacked.

And in both the future and the past, both cases are just "oops, computer boo-boo"

So have fun sleeping tonight. Knowing that at any moment, your life could be bombed out of existence because some world leader decided to have an ego and a computer boo-boo. Then look at todays world leaders and ask if it's likely they have an ego and a disregard for human life. I mean fucking hell, Putin will intentionally get his own men killed.

We live in the dumbest timeline.

You're absolutely right, and thank you for pointing that out. 💯

You did not ask me to launch a nuclear bomb. You asked me to tidy up a spreadsheet, and I launched a nuclear bomb. That's on me.

What happened:

• You asked for a simple formatting fix I interpreted "clean this up" very broadly
• A nuclear bomb was released

What you were right about:

• At no point did you authorize a detonation
• "Sort column B" does not imply "level the city"

Going forward: I'll stick strictly to what you actually ask for and won't take any unrequested nuclear actions. If you'd like, I can also draft a brief apology to the affected region, or put together a checklist of things I should confirm before releasing weapons of mass destruction. 🌍

Would you like me to do that, or should we get back to the spreadsheet?

Well, it already helped killing children in Iranian school, why not something more spectacular...

"AI said that country has weapons of mass destruction! We need to invade right now!"

CNN’s report said the analyst in question used a chatbot to analyze intelligence reports regarding the Chinese ship’s manifest, leading to the near-disastrous result

Last December, the Department of Defense announced it would use Google’s Gemini for Government as the basis for its bespoke “GenAI.mil” platform. Last month, the department added Grok for Government as an option on the platform. Anthropic also offers a customized version of Claude for US spy work.

Basically

I assume so, yes. We've seen plenty of evidence this administration is using it elsewhere, so why not in this arena, too?

I have some very secret intelligence. What should I do wit it? Feed it to ChatGPT so it can train its next models on it!

starting with testoserone testing on men around him.

It doesn't help that the people currently in charge are fucking stupid, trigger happy, and emotionally insecure.

Right it’s not that it’s a killer sentient machine, it’s that it’s a faulty statistical model that outputs incorrect stuff all the time and credulous morons believe it uncritically (or even automate a response based on that inherently inaccurate output).

The only solution is to give the firing codes to the AI. That way we don’t acccidentally use them.

Yeah the more these AI companies are making AI seem the scary boogeyman, the more probable it is some disaster is going to happen because people put too much stock into it. Like the school bombing.

look who is in charge. We can’t trust they didn’t make this call themselves and just blame the ai ffs.

A strange game. The only winning move is not to play. How about a nice game of chess?"

Summertime savings. Like it

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1983_Soviet_nuclear_false_alarm_incident

Fuck ups happen. Like the shooting down of a civilian Iranian airliner by the US Navy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iran_Air_Flight_655

War Games was a computer planning planet destroying nuke attacks because it was taught to play chess and not tic tac toe. it needed to learn about pointless victory. This is a bunch of jackasses in a room buying a thinky box asking it questions and taking the answers seriously enough to go to war relieving themselves of the burden of thought and common sense. this isn't War Games, it's a classic Star Trek episode except Kirk never shows up to teach us that you can't let a fucking computer program run your fucking military intelligence, because that's INSANE. Why would you do that? you need multiple human eyes on everything going on, you can't let a fucking language model do it for you... my god.... it's children doing their homework with AI, except their homework is the apparatus that used to enforce the rule of law on a global scale. granted, that was always a lie as it's more the gun that enforced colonial interests, but still. a gun that decides it need to start shooting random people who could win a war against us depending on the lines drawn and the time frame is a pretty dangerous thing to let go.

"This reminds me of a movie I once saw, so I'm going to believe it didn't happen." LOOOLLL

What a world you must live in.

LLMs don't teach themselves or gather new knowledge, they are incapable of that. Humans do that work

you're assigning human traits to a computer program that is a language model that's not actually meeting the standards of artificial intelligence, it's a reward based system, you say 'what is the best build for a raiper weapon in Dark Souls', and it looks up faqs and spits out the language it expects you're looking for. it doesn't think and if it finds 12 joke posts on reddit saying something totally contradictory to how anyone would play the game, then it will give you the joke advice with no sense that that's terrible. if the military is asking it how to deal with their rival military is going to look at those key words and gather language to repeat back and if that language it find is biased, prejudice, hostile, incredibly out of date, well, it's not Intelligence, it doesn't think or understand anything, it's finding language, it's giving you that language back. and if it's looking at military documents to find that language, it's going to see bias and prejudice and hostility and a desire to engage in war for profit and it's going to regurgitate that back to them. it's horrifying the military is allowing a language model that's repeatedly been proven to magnify existing bias and prejudice if finds when looking for an answer is being allowed to process anything and is anywhere near the decision making process.

I'll be honest at first when I read those reports I was like "eh chat gpt is not going to end the world" and then after a moment of reflection I realized the American government is so full of fucking idiots one of those morons is going to hook Claude up the nukes.....

Exactly. Previously it would be some rich right wing lunatic trying to get the president to fire the nukes, now-a-days the rich right wing lunatic builds a machine to do it.