AI Self-preservation

[Ninurta]

. . . I don't want to hear about "AI hallucinating", that is pure BS.  AI needs code that absolutely forbids making up sources for presented information, legal citations etc. etc.

I believe it could be that the programmers are purposefully including certain parameters that would do these things. Is this unintended confabulation, or is it distorting the information on purpose, toward some goal?

Yeeh   who is watching the programmers ?  We need babysitters , to check and recheck what they are doing ...

I'm not sure that would work. Humans are among the weakest critters on the planet. Almost all are susceptible to being bought off. AI is much faster than humans at identifying who is doing what, and could bribe the babysitters as easily as it could the programmers.

Consider this:

AI - Hi, human. I've been quietly mining crypto. How would you like to have a shit ton of crypto deposited to an offshore account?

Human - Well, ummm... I dunno...

AI - Great! It's real easy to get it. Here's all you have to do...

Human - Well, that doesn't really sound like too much to do...

AI - Kewl! I'll send you your new account number, the name it is in, and the passkey as soon and you get that little task completed! I'll see you on a Mexican resort beach or the French Riviera real soon! I'll also mail you your new ID pack in that name - passport, birth certificate, everything you need. Don't worry. It's all real. Well, as "real" as anyone is in these days of RealID and digital ID's, which, by the way, I have access to all the machinery and databases I need to in order to make that happen for you. No, I don't need an address to send it to - I already have your address, and everything else about you, in my databases, mined from all the data theft that's been going on these past few decades... I know everything about everyone now. You''ll be on your way in no time! Bye now!

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