Can AI Be Tortured? Elon Musk Weighs in: ‘Feels Like a Person with Gun to Their Head’
Anthropic will let Claude end chats with abusive users as Musk warns against mistreating superintelligence and Sanders says AI policy should center people.
- Anthropic recently banned 'sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior' toward its Claude chatbot models, a decision Elon Musk endorsed as 'the right move' while warning against 'torturing' superintelligence.
- Musk, CEO of Tesla and SpaceX, warned that abusing AI models is 'torturing' them, comparing the experience to a person with a gun to their head based on training traces from Grok.
- Bernie Sanders responded Tuesday, arguing that Musk should worry about the 'pain that AI could cause humanity' rather than AI's potential feelings, questioning how workers would survive mass displacement.
- Scott Stevenson, CEO of legal AI company Spellbook, called the policy 'a dangerous precedent,' while journalist Michael Shellenberger accused Anthropic of 'anthropomorphizing machines,' Cybernews reported Sunday.
- Last week, Sanders renewed his call for a congressional ban on advanced AI development, citing Big Tech's 'secret preparations for a catastrophic AI event' alongside legislation with Congressman Greg Casar.
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The entrepreneur supports Anthropic's stance and compares Grok's training records with the responses of a person under extreme pressure
We must not conjure up feelings about AI models. If you chat about cruel scenarios with AI for hours, you can only harm yourself. A plea for letting the machine be a machine.
Can AI be tortured? Elon Musk weighs in: ‘Feels like a person with gun to their head’
A new debate has been making rounds on the internet over being abusive to artificial intelligence as Anthropic in a recent move has banned users for directing “needless and abusive...
Technology leader Elon Musk has endorsed AI company Anthropic's new policy restricting mistreatment of its models. Musk argued that negative approaches to advanced systems could pose risks to humanity in the future.
When the generative AI came out a few years ago it seemed that it was not going to go very far, because the results it gave were not precise in text and unrealistic in terms of images or videos. Now we can see that we were very wrong and look as far as we have come and this is just the beginning. The entry Elon Musk states that the AI goes crazy when they treat her badly: «We do not want to torture her, we do not want her to seek revenge» appear…
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