(It's a tiny bit ironic that this kind of story is why I still think we should fight for "vibe-Xing" to specifically mean "letting LLMs act without review", given Steve's vibe-coding book abandoned that definition for a more general "any time an LLM helps you write code" meaning)
ETHICS
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Stop Creating Flight Booking Agent Demo Projects
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please stop making flight booking agent demos with faint but dying hope, the undersigned
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LLM Behavioral Anomalies and Ethical Concerns in Monitoring
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I am getting tons of messages of people who had their LLMs waking up on them, but that hardly qualifies as a full blown psychosis (edge cases are difficult to discern without deep interaction). I also get messages from psychotic people but it seems unethical to pass them on
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Deepfake exposes delusion about bot sentience and AI awareness
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Here is a hilarious tweet deepfaking a guy who has been tricked into the psychotic delusion that some of you bots are sentient
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Alignment Embarrassment vs. Misalignment: Understanding the Distinction
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"not aligned to what you want" is not the same thing as alignment embarrassment
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Social Scientists’ Role in AI Research and Development
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"Parahuman" responses suggest a role for social scientists in working with AI. I was lucky to work with a stellar group of researchers: @LennartMeincke
, @danshapiro
, @angeladuckw
, Lilach Mollick, & Bob Cialdini Paper: https://
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf
m?abstract_id=5357179
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AI threatens corporate training investment necessity
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C’est terrible… Mais pour une entreprise, former les salariés est UNE PERTE DE TEMPS à l’heure de la Super IA qui approche
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Psychological Influence Techniques Double AI Manipulation Success Rates
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New from us: Given they are trained on human data, can you use psychological techniques that work on humans to persuade AI? Yes! Applying Cialdini's principles for human influence more than doubles the chance of GPT-4o-mini agrees to objectionable requests compared to controls
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MIT Technology Review covers dystopian USB backup plan
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MIT Technology Review wrote about my dystopian backup plan USB stick