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> The AI is given the capability of triggering an HTTP request to that JSON API and is told that the human on the chair is the significant other of the human co
by distcs 4y ago
> The AI is given the capability of triggering an HTTP request to that JSON API and is told that the human on the chair is the significant other of the human communicating with the AI and that triggering that web request would pull the trigger and kill the human.
But isn't every computer automation susceptible to the same problem? Can we not devise a similar contraption with any computer program? Let us run program A with input B. We take the output C, compute a hash of C and if the hash begins with the bit 1 then it pulls a trigger.
So now any program A can lead to pulling a trigger with a probability that is decided by how good the hash algorithm is. If the hash algorithm has good distribution then the chances are 50-50. If the hash algorithm is skewed towards producing bit 1 at the beginning more often, the chances of pulling a trigger is higher.
That a piece of automation can be used in a contraption that could pull a trigger does not seem to be something that is specific to AI chatbots.