{"id":132301,"date":"2021-12-12T18:23:58","date_gmt":"2021-12-13T02:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/reddit-trained-artificial-intelligence-warns-researchers-about-itself"},"modified":"2021-12-12T18:23:58","modified_gmt":"2021-12-13T02:23:58","slug":"reddit-trained-artificial-intelligence-warns-researchers-about-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/12\/reddit-trained-artificial-intelligence-warns-researchers-about-itself","title":{"rendered":"Reddit-trained artificial intelligence warns researchers about\u2026 itself"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/reddit-trained-artificial-intelligence-warns-researchers-about-itself2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But wait, should we believe it?<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>An artificial intelligence warning AI researchers about the dangers of AI sounds like the setup of a delightful B movie, but truth is often stranger than fiction.<\/p>\n<p>A professor and a fellow at the University of Oxford came face to face with that reality when they invited an AI to participate in a debate at the <a href=\"https:\/\/oxford-union.org\/\">Oxford Union<\/a> on, you guessed it, the ethics of AI. Specifically, as Dr. Alex Connock and Professor Andrew Stephen <a href=\"https:\/\/theconversation.com\/we-invited-an-ai-to-debate-its-own-ethics-in-the-oxford-union-what-it-said-was-startling-173607\">explain in the Conversation<\/a>, the prompt was \u201cThis house believes that AI will never be ethical.\u201d The AI, it seems, agreed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAI will never be ethical,\u201d argued the <a href=\"https:\/\/lifearchitect.ai\/megatron\/\">Megatron-Turing Natural Language Generation model<\/a>, which was notably trained on Wikipedia, Reddit, and millions of English-language news articles published between 2016 and 2019. \u201cIt is a tool, and like any tool, it is used for good and bad.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>But wait, should we believe it? An artificial intelligence warning AI researchers about the dangers of AI sounds like the setup of a delightful B movie, but truth is often stranger than fiction. A professor and a fellow at the University of Oxford came face to face with that reality when they invited an AI [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,15,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-132301","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-habitats","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132301","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=132301"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132301\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132301"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132301"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132301"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}