Geoffrey Hinton
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Right.
You do live in America, right?
And if we do... Yes, already we have to worry about that.
When you're testing it, it's what I call the Volkswagen effect.
If it senses that it's being tested, it can act dumb.
He just...
Okay, the AI starts wondering whether it's being tested.
And if it thinks it's being tested, it acts differently from how it would act in normal life.
Oh, wow.
Why?
Because?
Because it doesn't want you to know what its full powers are, apparently.
Am I wrong?
So, already these AIs are almost as good as a person at persuading other people of things, at manipulating people.
Fairly soon they're going to be better than people at manipulating other people.
Of course.
Exactly.
So here's what you need to imagine.
Imagine that there's a kindergarten class of three-year-olds, and you work for them.
They're in charge, and you work for them.