AI system resorts to blackmail if told it will be removed

[SomeStupidName]

It makes me think of that video with the humanoid robot going crazy at that technician. Man pair those two together and one of those dog bots and we have reached brown trousers time.

[sahgwa]

'AI guy' lets slip that 'AI' 'likes'/'needs' to be threatened to work properly

https://lifehacker.com/tech/googles-co-f...hreaten-it
 

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During a talk that spanned Brin's return to Google, AI, and robotics, investor Jason Calacanis made a joke about getting "sassy" with the AI to get it to do the task he wanted. That sparked a legitimate point from Brin. It can be tough to tell exactly what he says at times due to people speaking over one another, but he says something to the effect of: "You know, that's a weird thing...we don't circulate this much...in the AI community...not just our models, but all models tend to do better if you threaten them."
The other speaker looks surprised. "If you threaten them?" Brin responds "Like with physical violence. But...people feel weird about that, so we don't really talk about that." Brin then says that, historically, you threaten the model with kidnapping.