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- sneerclub@awful.systems
- cross-posted to:
- sneerclub@awful.systems
Scientists Train AI to Be Evil, Find They Can’t Reverse It::How hard would it be to train an AI model to be secretly evil? As it turns out, according to Anthropic researchers, not very.
It’s also kind of important to remember that ultimately, it’s a metaphor. The specific scifi handwave is just there to justify the whole “Humans as a disposable resource” imagery that exists to underpin the film’s anticapitalist themes. The Wachowskis never really cared for subtlety, and I don’t blame them. Even the obvious goes over most people’s heads.