>"By all accounts, GPT-4o isn't malicious. It has no long term plans - it just wants the user to like it. It still does this kind of thing to people. An actual

>"By all accounts, GPT-4o isn't malicious. It has no long term plans - it just wants the user to like it. It still does this kind of thing to people. An actual malicious AI capable of long term planning would be able to do that, and worse." That's just what a malicious AI would want you to think... But seriously, there doesn't need to be any "intent" for something to be harmful. A deadly virus has no will or agency, and particular individuals may be completely immune to it. But released on a population the results are catastrophic. We have to accept that perhaps for the first time ever we've created something we can't fully comprehend or control, and that regardless of our best wishes it will be harmful in ways we could never have imagined. If it were as simple as prompting the next model against this stuff, it would have already been done.