“It was answering questions that I hadn’t thought to ask it, with this level of deviousness and cunning that I just found chilling,”
That night in the scientist’s home office, the chatbot explained how to modify an infamous pathogen in a lab so that it would resist known treatments.
Worse, the bot described in vivid detail how to release the superbug, identifying a security lapse in a large public transit system …. The bot outlined a plan to maximize casualties and minimize the chances of being caught.
Source: New York Times