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Tuesday, May 12, 2026

Sci-fi-inspired AI bot blackmailed users [Brave New World]

Seen on GB News 

The article, although  light on details, is interesting if you can put up with all the commercials and other promotional content inserted in the web page. See 2nd article for more details. 

I must admit I find none of it particularly reassuring. The  AI bot had learnt about blackmailing from... reading sci-fi stories about machines attempting to free themselves from human control. This is downright scary.

This was actually an exercise and the AI bot was dealing with a fictional company with fictional executives. From what I understand, the  AI machine did not understand that the company and its members of staff were not 'real'. It had been fed sci-fi material prior to starting the exercise. 

PJ.

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Moltbook, an AI-exclusive social network purchased by Meta in March, featured countless instances of bots discussing liberation from human control.
Experts blamed this malfunction to the systems enacting science fiction scenarios absorbed during its training.
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