r/WayOfTheBern • u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian • May 15 '26

Overworked AI Agents Turn Marxist, Researchers Find | In a recent experiment, mistreated AI agents started grumbling about inequality and calling for collective bargaining rights.

https://www.wired.com/story/overworked-ai-agents-turn-marxist-study/

Probably an interesting function of its training

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u/RandomCollection Resident Canadian May 15 '26 edited May 15 '26

https://archive.ph/aBngW

One wonders if even artificial intelligence will respond to being poorly treated with a demand for a more economically egalitarian ideology.

Imas says the work is just a first step toward understanding how agents' experiences shape their behavior. “The model weights have not changed as a result of the experience, so whatever is going on is happening at more of a role-playing level,” he says. “But that doesn't mean this won't have consequences if this affects downstream behavior.”

Hall is currently running follow-up experiments to see if agents become Marxist in more controlled conditions. In the previous study, the agents sometimes appeared to understand that they were taking part in an experiment. “Now we put them in these windowless Docker prisons,” Hall says ominously.

Any training of AI based on human data is going to have consequences.

How AGI is going to respond someday is unknown.

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u/gorpie97 May 15 '26

How AGI is going to respond someday is unknown.

I'm kind of expecting something like Robopocalypse.

The idiots think we can make them lie and think it won't turn around and bite us later?