Re: How far will AI go to defend its own survival?

On 6/1/2025 3:47 PM, RonO wrote:

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/far-will-ai-go-defend-survival- rcna209609
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Recent tests by independent researchers, as well as one major AI developer, have shown that several advanced AI models will act to ensure their self-preservation when they are confronted with the prospect of their own demise — even if it takes sabotaging shutdown commands, blackmailing engineers or copying themselves to external servers without permission.
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 "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that"
 What would an AI do if you fed in all the science fiction horror stories that would teach it how to respond to attempts to turn it off?
 Ron Okimoto
 

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/labelers-training-ai-say-theyre-overworked-underpaid-and-exploited-60-minutes-transcript/
This news article claims that the guys feeding data into computers in order to train AI with massive amounts of data are being abused.
Aren't the AI companies aware of GIGO?  Shouldn't classifying material and feeding it into the pipeline be high priority?
Ron Okimoto