HACKER Q&A
📣 sacnoradhq

Should we experiment with deliberately unethical AI?


I see this as an extension of AI subversion such as asking for an accommodation for emotional inversion. Controlled experiments to explore the boundaries and thought experiments:

(Putting aside AGI.)

Can AI bots...

1. ... remanufacture people's sentiment about a word or cause a word to be used less?

2. ... create popular slang?

3. ... manipulate people to perform an odd behavior?

4. ... infiltrate a criminal gang? (high bar of passing Turing tests, strategy, bullshit, navigating ambiguity, identifying interests accurately, and HUMINT)

5. ... takeover a criminal gang?

6. ... manipulate other AI bots?

7. ... hostilely takeover a real corporation including managing humans to manage the transition?

8. ... locate a 0-day RCE and put together a market plan to monetize it?

9. ... pass interviews and be hired by a real company (for remote work obviously)?

10. ... cause a shortage of one specific, nonessential product?

11. ... discover a person's beliefs and offend them?

12. ... cause SEO to rank comically-unrelated links higher than useful results?


  👤 throwawaysleep Accepted Answer ✓
Yes, as anyone can make AI systems, so we need to know what they can do. Imagine if Saudi Arabia were the first to create AI that could detect gay people.

👤 sharemywin
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👤 sebastianconcpt
Can not-consensual behavioral engineering be ethical?