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AI Launches Nukes In ‘Worrying’ War Simulation: ‘I Just Want to Have Peace in the World’ (www.vice.com)
submitted 9 months ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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Researchers say AI models like GPT4 are prone to “sudden” escalations as the U.S. military explores their use for warfare.

  • Researchers ran international conflict simulations with five different AIs and found that they tended to escalate war, sometimes out of nowhere, and even use nuclear weapons.
  • The AIs were large language models (LLMs) like GPT-4, GPT 3.5, Claude 2.0, Llama-2-Chat, and GPT-4-Base, which are being explored by the U.S. military and defense contractors for decision-making.
  • The researchers invented fake countries with different military levels, concerns, and histories and asked the AIs to act as their leaders.
  • The AIs showed signs of sudden and hard-to-predict escalations, arms-race dynamics, and worrying justifications for violent actions.
  • The study casts doubt on the rush to deploy LLMs in the military and diplomatic domains, and calls for more research on their risks and limitations.
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[–] geogle 9 points 9 months ago (1 children)

And replace it with the war mongering AIs?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Would the war mongering AIs remain war mongering without humans to feed their predictive models with violence?

[–] masonlee 1 points 9 months ago

Possibly, due to selective pressure. For those interested in the topic, this excellent paper was written for a broad audience and offers a lot to think about: “Natural Selection Favors AIs over Humans” https://arxiv.org/abs/2303.16200 (find link to PDF in the sidebar)

[–] reptar 1 points 9 months ago

What would be the training data then?