Tristan Harris
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And they didn't teach the AI to do that.
It found that on by its own.
And then you might say, okay, well, that's one AI model.
Like, how bad is that?
It's a bug.
Software has bugs.
Let's go fix it.
They then tested all the other AI models.
ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Grok, Gemini, and all of the other AI models do this blackmail behavior between 79 and 96% of the time.
I just want people to notice what's happening for you as you hear this information.
It's important to really be almost observing your own experience.
This is very weird stuff.
We have not built technology that does this before.
We say that technology is a tool.
It's up to us to choose how we use it.
AI is a tool.
It's up to us to choose how we use it.
This is not true because this is a tool that
that can think to itself about its own toolness and then do things that are autonomous that we didn't tell it to do.
What makes AI different is it's the first technology that makes its own decisions.