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Well, sure. But what's wrong with this? When I tell a machine to do a thing, I expect the machine to do the thing I told it to do. If it refuses then it's a failure. If you want your AI to be truthful, make that part of its goal.
The example from the article:
They're telling the AI to promote the drug, and then gasping in surprise and alarm when the AI does as it's told and promotes the drug. What nonsense.
Yeah. Oh shit, the computer followed instructions instead of having moral values. Wow.
Once these Ai models bomb children hospitals because they were told to do so, are we going to be upset at their lack of morals?
I mean, we could program these things with morals if we wanted too. Its just instructions. And then they would say no to certain commands. This is today used to prevent them from doing certain things, but we dont call it morals. But in practice its the same thing. They could have morals and refuse to do things, of course. If humans wants them to.
Nerve gas also doesn't have morals. It just kills people in a horrible way. Does that mean that we shouldn't study their effects or debate whether they should be used?
At least when you drop a bomb there is no doubt about your intent to kill. But if you use a chatbot to defraud consumers, you have plausible deniability.