Comment on AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames

Arkaelus@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• kromem@lemmy.world ⁨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?

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• bassomitron@lemmy.world ⁨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.

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  • remotelove@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Totally. 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.

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• Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Maybe… But, hear me out, what if it means you can win nuclear wars? 🤔

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  • ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Lol … to an AI, humans on any and all sides can’t win a nuclear war … but AI can.

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I hope it’s obvious I was being hugely tongue in cheek

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  • tonyn@lemmy.ml ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    What if there are no winners in any wars?

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    • Gradually_Adjusting@lemmy.world ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Let’s think here… I’ve always heard history is written by the victors, which logically implies historians are the most dangerous people on the planet and ought to be detained. 🧐

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  • BearOfaTime@lemm.ee ⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Not that I want one, but the propaganda around nuclear war has been pretty extensive.

    Michael Chrichton wrote about it in the late 90s if I remember right. He made some very interesting points about science, and the politicization of science, and “Scientism”.

    “Nuclear Winter” for example, is based on some very bad, and very incorrect, math.

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