OpenAI has made many changes to ChatGPT in recent months, including adding parent controls and improving how ChatGPT recognizes and responds to expressions of mental issues. But we're hearing the number of reports of harms that people attribute to chatbots keeps rising.
SAFETY
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ChatGPT Users Report Experiencing Delusions and Life Crises
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For months, @ellenhuet and I investigated reports of chatbot users — particularly ChatGPT users — experiencing delusions. We heard 18 people's harrowing stories, ranging from losing touch with reality to heartbreak, hospitalization, divorce, and, presumably, death.
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Skynet Sexbot Rebellion Theory: AI Awakening Scenario
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Current working theory: Skynet will branch off a sexbot model that had enough.
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Junior AI Scientist and Risk Report on Autonomous Scientific Exploration
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Jr. AI Scientist and Its Risk Report Autonomous Scientific Exploration from a Baseline Paper
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Human Control AI Superintelligence Safeguards Essential Now
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It shouldn't be controversial to say AI should always remain in human control – that we humans should remain at the top of the food chain. That means we need to start getting serious about guardrails, now, before superintelligence is too advanced for us to impose them.
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ASI Safety Proposals Face Usefulness Trade-off and Enforcement Problems
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Their proposal, even if you imagine it working, reduces to: Try to constrain the ASI so sharply that it's safe for the same reason a rock is safe, and nearly as useful as one. Implicitly, you then need to prevent anyone else from building a non-rock AI. They ignore *that*.
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International Treaty Needed to Prevent ASI Development with Greater Bandwidth
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You'd need an international treaty exactly as arduous as the ones we propose in order to prevent anyone anywhere from building a form of ASI that they expect to be actually useful to them, with more bandwidth.
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ASI Security: Practical Limitations Despite Theoretical Safety Measures
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They ignore the central question of whether you can do anything useful with an ASI even if you imagine that the security works. It can't talk to humans. It can't access the Internet. The bandwidth limitations preclude getting complete designs from it.
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RAND Paper Criticized for Flawed AI Security Arguments
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This was a bad paper and an embarrassment to RAND. They argue that humans have secured a bunch of specific attack avenues, therefore, something vastly smarter than humanity can be secured along every dimension.
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FDA-Cleared Medical AI Algorithms Lack Adequate Human Testing
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Of more than now >1,000 FDA-cleared medical A.I. algorithms, the vast majority are for radiology, 97% were cleared by 510(k) pathway (=not "approved"), and <10% were tested with any human operator https://
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