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From https://metaculus.com/questions/16553/ai-blackmail-for-material-gain-by-eoy-2028/
- The potential capabilities of artificial intelligence may radically shift our society.
- This could be in positive or negative ways – including extinction risk.
- Because of this, it’s important to track the development of goal-oriented independent thought and action within AI systems.
- Actions that might not have been predicted by their human creators and that are typically seen as morally wrong are particularly interesting from a risk perspective.
- Machine learning systems like ChatGPT and Bing AI are already being reported to display erratic behavior, including some reports of [threatened blackmail] (https://aibusiness.com/nlp/microsoft-limits-bing-ai-chat-generations-after-weird-behavior).