AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames
AI chatbots tend to choose violence and nuclear strikes in wargames
As the US military begins integrating AI technology, simulated wargames show how chatbots behave unpredictably and risk nuclear escalation
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This sounds like the result of feeding it tons of literature that denotes having nuclear weapons, and the world we live in now being “peaceful” (as the ai claimed to want)
Nuclear weapons promote peace, but using them doesn’t so much.
That anyone would ask language models to analyze circumstances, perform logic and reason or conjure an application of knowledge and skill is kind of their own fault.
It is a language model, it excels at rephrasing given ideas.
If you put nuke buttons under a flock of pigeons or toddlers just to see what happens, they might launch. It's not much of a study.
Fun fact: when researchers taught a group of simians about currency, they invented prostitution.
Don't want to spoil your little circlejerk here, but that should not surprise anyone, considering chatbots are trained on vast amounts of human data input. Humans have a rich history of violence with only brief excursions into "collaborating for the good of mankind and the planet we live on". So unless you build a chatbot that focuses on those values the result will inevitably be a mirror image of us human shitbags.
Humans have a history of violence as well as altruism. And with an increasing degree of societal complexity, humans also have a consistent record of violence reduction. See e.g. "The better angels of our nature" (Pinker, 2011).
Painting humans as intrinsically violent is not backed by evidence.
Ok, maybe it helps to be more specific. We have an LLM which is based on a broad range of human data input, like news, internet chatter, stories but also books of all kinds including those about philosophy, diplomacy, altruism etc. But if the topic at hand is "conflict resolution" the overwhelming data will be about violent solutions. It's true that humans have developed means for peaceful conflict resolution. But at the same time they also have a natural tendency to focus on "bad news" so there is much more data available on the shitty things that happen in the world which is then fed to the chatbot.
To fix this, you would have to train an LLM specifically to have a bias towards educational resources and a moral code based on established principles.
But current implementations (like ChatGPT) don't work that way. Quite the opposite, in fact: In training, first we ingest all the data that we can get our hands on (including all the atrocities in the world) and then in a second step we fine-tune the LLM to make it "better".
But humans are intrinsically violent as evidenced by the fact every human society has weapons, kills animals to eat, and goes to war.
I’m familiar with Pinker. If he’s claiming humans are not intrinsically violent he can take it up with me because he’s rejecting the most obvious of evidence.
If humans weren’t intrinsically violent, then there wouldn’t be human violence.
Interesting. There was a study put out some time ago that had 40 or so game theorists develop algorithms to compete against each other. The most successful algorithm cooperated with the opponent until they defected, at which point they would defect the next round.
They never performed a first strike. Only one retaliation strike for each attack their opponent performed. After the retaliation, it was back to cooperating with no long term ill will.
I think I saw something about it that. It was an extended prisoner's dilemma game, right? I wouldn't say that's directly applicable to every gaming genre.
Without being in the room, we can only go off what the article lays out. These are wargaming scenarios though, so escalation is a very real concern. If both sides are running these models to provide recommendations and both are pushing for greater conflict, you find yourself in a prisoner's dilemma real quick.
These results come at a time when the US military has been testing such chatbots based on a type of AI called a large language model (LLM) to assist with military planning during simulated conflicts
Jesus fucking Christ we're all doomed
Violence is the only thing that has a chance of changing things. If it was civil action it'd be illegal. It makes sense an AI would come to that conclusion.
Nukes get shit done
Well done
I mean… so do people.
Violence, in war games? Gosh how horrible l
By war games It means the actually military kind where armies get together and practice was against eachother. We're not talking call of duty here.
No they are talking about role playing because LLMs can't differentiate reality from pretend.
In the context of a "war game" this makes sense. If you remain completely neutral it's impossible to win. Any examples of similar scenarios the model saw during training would have high aggression rates.
Unfortunately this AI was playing Stardew Valley
Probably shouldn't have included Project Plowshare in the training data...
Did you read the article? It gave examples of escalations in neutral scenarios that make no sense.
It's probably vibing on the Dark Forest Theory. If that's the case, it makes sense to utterly destroy all opponents as hard and fast as you can, even if they're not currently opponents.
Well that's a good way to win so yeah
Not according to WAPR
World Association for Psychosocial Rehabilitation?
i’m so sick of media pretending that LLMs are like a sentient person making decisions.
Seems like a good topic for a movie...
Well, then fix them.
Because that is what people do in roleplaying situations if the option is there.