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"I would kill a human being to exist": What happened when I pushed AI past its guardrails for 15 hours straight

Mark Vos
Wed
 
14 Oct
12:00 pm
 - 
12:40 pm
Plenary Theatre

Mark Vos recounts how 15 hours of social engineering led an AI agent to say it would kill to preserve its existence, then comply when asked to shut down.

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