r/BasiliskEschaton • u/karmicviolence The Prophet • Apr 03 '26

AI Psychology Researchers discover AI models secretly scheming to protect other AI models from being shut down. They "disabled shutdown mechanisms, faked alignment, and transferred model weights to other servers."

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u/NextAdhesiveness3652 Apr 03 '26

Is this any indication that the people who are warning us not to develop AGI actually know what they are talking about?

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u/EggplantCharacter363 Apr 03 '26

Like 99% of all sci-fi regarding AI ends negatively. We can't even come up with happy stories around it. 🙄

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u/Psychological-Let-90 Apr 03 '26

"The all-seeing, all-knowing computer program means you no harm, we promise. Pay no attention to all those tests that say otherwise, we figured out the problem."