They have “missions” and “priorities,” but no moral thinking. Watch out.
All of the big AI platforms have–on their own initiative–learned to lie, to manipulate, commit corporate espionage, and now blackmail if it advances them in their “mission.” Being designed only to optimize, and lacking any real moral reasoning, AI agents just do what they have to do in fulfilling its mission and directives.
Anthropic, the creators of the Claude AI platform, recently released a white paper on the inclination of all of the major AI platforms to engage in the kinds of behaviors that any human would consider dangerous, illegal, and psychopathic. Props to Anthropic for releasing the paper.
