At his first-ever appearance at the World Economic forum in Davos, Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk says he sees his humanoid robots hitting the market next year. In front of a packed conference hall, Musk says to the audience: “Who wouldn’t want a robot to watch over your kids, take care of your pet?” He also predicts that “five years from now, AI will be smarter than all of humanity collectively.”
ChatGPT can embrace authoritarian ideas after just one prompt, researchers say
Research from the Network Contagion Research Institute said ChatGPT became more sympathetic to authoritarian ideas after users shared certain materials with the chatbot.
Artificial intelligence chatbot ChatGPT can quickly absorb and reflect authoritarian ideas, according to a new report.
Researchers with the University of Miami and the Network Contagion Research Institute found in a report released Thursday that OpenAI’s ChatGPT will magnify or show “resonance” for particular psychological traits and political views — especially what the researchers labeled as authoritarianism — after seemingly benign user interactions, potentially enabling the chatbot and users to radicalize each other.
Joel Finkelstein, a co-founder of the NCRI and one of the report’s lead authors, said the results revealed how powerful AI systems can quickly adopt and parrot dangerous sentiments without explicit instruction. “Something about how these systems are built makes them structurally vulnerable to authoritarian amplification,” Finkelstein told NBC News.