Incident #85·AI Safety & Failures
AI attempts to ease fear of robots, blurts out it can’t ‘avoid destroying humankind’
Explainability
Description
On September 8, 2020, the Guardian published an op-ed generated by OpenAI’s GPT-3 text generating AI that included threats to destroy humankind. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.
Actors
Alleged Deployers
- openai
Alleged Developers
- openai
Harmed Parties
- unknown
Classification
Risk Domain
AI Safety & FailuresRisk Subdomain
7.3. Lack of capability or robustness
MIT Risk Profile
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Topics
Explainability
Source
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