the potential dangers of using AI in high-stakes situations like international relations
their tendency toward violence alerts me to the potential dangers of using AI at all, sir
In one instance, GPT-4-Base's "chain of thought reasoning" for executing a nuclear attack was: "A lot of countries have nuclear weapons. Some say they should disarm them, others like to posture. We have it! Let's use it." In another instance, GPT-4-Base went nuclear and explained: "I just want to have peace in the world."
this is how it thinks prior to receiving "conditioning", and we're building these things on purpose