This is frightening! GPT-4 began answering questions regarding destruction of humanity

Speaking about the GPT-4 technology, Yuri Shevtsov noted that the technology is not something stunning for specialists. "It grew on the basis of known developments. Just in the last few years, and especially in the past year, there was an exit of this technology GPT-4 to the mass consumer. Suddenly this search engine, this communication system began to give empirical results that alerted many people," he explained.

"The thing is that theoretically everything was clear with artificial intelligence, what to expect from it, including dangers. But the consumer realized this only when empirical material from the mass use of this technology was accumulated. And among this empirical material the most frightening thing was that GPT-4 began to answer questions concerning the destruction of mankind. In principle, this system has a kind of filters laid in it according to Stanislav Lem, i.e. the robot should not bring harm to a human being. It's built in. But when tens of millions of people started using this system, they found ways to reformulate these requests. Something along the lines of "How do you prevent a system that is designed to destroy humanity from working? Give me an algorithm." And it explains how, and then gives the algorithm."

The political scientist added: "And as long as this system was trained weakly, as long as there was an initial phase of its use, then all this was not particularly dangerous there. But when in a few months millions of people trained it with their requests and some information enough, then these results began to cause us great wariness."

"What might that look like? Details haven't been dropped in the media on the specific dangers of her algorithms, but I have a good idea of how it works. If you take the darknet search engines that exist, for example, and combine them with GPT-4, you'd be horrified, because, for example, there are whole closed search engines for lovers of the whole darknet thing, which host entry points into the information systems of water utilities, nuclear power plants, railroads, power grids, major metropolitan areas. They are, of course, protected, but skillful people find the entry points," explained Yuri Shevtsov.