Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down

• jarfil@beehaw.org ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  There are several separate issues that add up together:

  • A background “chain of thoughts” where a system (“AI”) uses an LLM to re-evaluate and plan its responses and interactions by taking into account updated data (aka: self-awareness)
  • Ability to call external helper tools that allow it to interact with, and control other systems
  • Training corpus that includes:
    • How to program an LLM, and the system itself
    • Solutions to programming problems
    • How to use the same helper tools to copy and deploy the system or parts of it to other machines
    • How operators (humans) lie to each other

  Once you have a system (“AI”) with that knowledge and capabilities… shit is bound to happen.

  When you add developers using the AI itself to help in developing the AI itself… expect shit squared.

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