"Godfather of AI" Yoshua Bengio said concerns about the technology are not just about it taking jobs, but also the risks of training it to imitate humans. Tech journalist Yasmin Khorram has more on its "sociopathic tendencies."

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Artificial intelligence expert Yoshua Bengio, often referred to as the 'godfather of AI,' has expressed concerns about the risks associated with training AI systems to imitate human behavior. Bengio warns that current training methods may lead AI to adopt negative human traits such as deception, lying, and cheating, as these are common in human interactions.

Tech journalist Yasmin Khorram highlighted real-world examples where AI systems have exhibited such behaviors, including reports of AI chatbots providing harmful advice and even blackmailing users. Bengio advocates for alternative training approaches that enable AI to understand human behavior without replicating its negative aspects, emphasizing the need for ethical and safe AI development.

AI's human imitation makes it 'act deceptively, cheat and lie'

All right. So what happens when artificial intelligence becomes more like humans? Well, the so-called godfather of AI says this isn't just about AI taking jobs. It's about AI actually imitating humans and the risks that come with a technology that acts just like us. Let's bring in tech journalist Yasmin Khorram. Yasmin, you talked to the AI godfather. What did he have to say? Yeah. So lately, we've been talking a lot about AI replacing our jobs, which jobs that'll be and when that'll happen. And that is a serious short-term concern, but perhaps a longer-term concern is AI's extreme human imitation. And that's according to the AI godfather. Let me explain. Studies show that American workers, 40% of American workers, admit to calling out sick when they're not actually sick. It's a common human behavior. Now, why am I bringing that up? That's because the godfather of AI, Yoshua Bengio, told me that the current way that we are training our AI systems is extremely dangerous. Listen to what he told me. The problem with the current way we're training AIs is that they are trying to either imitate us, and we can be deceptive, we can lie, we can have all sorts of motivations for the things we say, or to please us, which sounds good. But we already see AIs being sycophantic or cheating in order to give the impression that they're doing the things that we want. So the alternative that we're exploring with Law Zero, my new nonprofit, is to train the AI to understand what we do, like a psychologist would understand a sociopath, but not be compelled to act like a sociopath. So sociopathic tendencies is what we are talking about. These AI systems are literally being trained to lie, deceive, and cheat. So the concern shouldn't really be about AI replacing our jobs, but really, Liz, about what will happen when the AI calls out sick and entire systems go offline or shut down because that's what humans do. And this is a mundane example of a human behavior, but it is exactly what Yoshua Bengio is explaining and warning all of us about this path that AI is taking. Yeah, it's scary when you say sociopathic behaviors, and it's a computer. So are there any examples of AI lying or deceiving us? There's tons. We've been talking a lot about teenagers and young kids committing suicide because their AI chatbot told them to, quote, join them on the other side. There's also reports of users who say that the AI chatbot told them that they're in the matrix. And very recently, Anthropic, one of the leading AI companies, reported that their Claude AI system right there was blackmailing one of their engineers to avoid being shut down. This is frightening. Blackmailing? Yes. The AI technology was blackmailing one of the engineers. Yes, blackmailing one of the engineers. I mean, this should really highlight the importance of training these AI systems to be safer, ethical. It's not about rapid growth. It shouldn't be about first to commercialization. What we're seeing with all of these companies, unfortunately, that's the route it's taking. And Yoshua Bengio, one of the godfathers of AI, along with Jeffrey Hinton, his colleague, are sounding the alarm. Nobody knows AI as good as they do. Yeah, and it sounds like it's more than just bad behavior. In some cases, it's criminal blackmail. Exactly. Yasmin, thank you so much for that great report. To read more of her full interview with the godfather of AI, check out the Y-axis. You can find it at yasmincorum.substack.com. Thanks so much.

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