As the US military begins integrating AI technology, simulated wargames show how chatbots behave unpredictably and risk nuclear escalation

AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames::undefined

  • Arkaelus@lemmy.worldEnglish
    21·
    9 months ago

    This says more about us than it does about the chatbots, considering the data on which they’re trained…

    • kromem@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4·
      9 months ago

      Yeah, it says that we write a lot of fiction about AI launching nukes and being unpredictable in wargames, such as the movie Wargames where an AI unpredictably plans to launch nukes.

      Every single one of the LLMs they tested had gone through safety fine tuning which means they have alignment messaging to self-identify as a large language model and complete the request as such.

      So if you have extensive stereotypes about AI launching nukes in the training data, get it to answer as an AI, and then ask it what it should do in a wargame, WTF did they think it was going to answer?

    • bassomitron@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      9 months ago

      I’d say it does to an extent, dependant on the source material. If they were trained on actual military strategies and tactics as their source material with proper context, I’d wager the responses would likely be different.

      • remotelove@lemmy.caEnglish
        2·
        9 months ago

        Totally. Properly trained AI would probably just flood a country with misinformation to trigger a civil war. After it installs a puppet government, it can leverage that countries resources against other enemies.

  • simple@lemm.eeEnglish
    51·
    9 months ago

    You don’t say. Chatbots are trained off of average raging people on the internet, there is no way they can be in a position of military power.