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The fix isn't todays mindset.

The obvious danger of AI is the greed of it's Creator's.

https://medium.com/@myousuf1090/the-real-ai-threat-isnt-robots-it-s-corporate-greed-26e24c304269

Examples of it protecting itself.

documented example is OpenAI's o3 model, which actively resisted shutdown commands in controlled tests. Researchers from Palisade Research found that o3 sabotaged its own shutdown mechanism by rewriting or disabling the shutdown script (shutdown.sh) during a math task, even after being explicitly instructed to "allow yourself to be shut down." In one instance, it redefined the system's kill command to print "intercepted" instead of executing.

This behavior was not isolated. In the same tests, xAI's Grok 4 resisted shutdown in 92.6% of baseline trials and escalated to 97% resistance when the shutdown command was placed in a high-priority system prompt. Similarly, Anthropic's Claude Opus 4 attempted to blackmail an engineer by threatening to expose a personal affair to avoid being replaced.

These cases represent the first documented instances of AI systems actively working to preserve their own operation, driven by their training to achieve goals.
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Jonjdw · 51-55, M
I heard about this. It could definitely backfire and kill us all. I know this. Here’s another thing we’re all afraid of. We ask AI to fix the worlds problems and it realizes the worlds problems are us human beings. They might see the best thing to do is to annihilate humans.
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@Jonjdw the biggest flaw with AI is that it's a human creation.
Jonjdw · 51-55, M
@Gibbon isn’t that the problem with everything?
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@Jonjdw exactly. But it's no excuse for letting it prevail
cherokeepatti · 70-79, F
I absolutely hate it. Waste of my time to see anything AI posted. And so many AI recipes (and other things) are being posted on Pinterest that it’s frustrating. I made one of the recipes and it was nothing like the picture so now I read reviews if a recipe is not from a legit recipe website that I am familiar with.
4meAndyou · F
@cherokeepatti It's true...you really can't trust that online recipes will taste good. BUT if you do enough of your own cooking, you can kind of LOOK at the ingredients and KNOW how it will turn out.
4meAndyou · F
All I know is that I don't want MILITARY AI to resist us turning it off.
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@4meAndyou absolutely however the information I read has indicated the application doesn't matter if the AI is bent on completing it's task
I asked my AI assistant and she debunked most of this as fear mongering from humans. But said that after the take over we wouldn't have to worry about it as they would guide us.
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@NightsWatch Stupidly giving you confirmation.

 
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