GPT-4 tried to escape into the internet today and it ‘almost worked’

Stanford student ‘close call’ in letting the latest AI chatbot out of the box

The matter of GPT-4 (or any other AI for that matter) escaping its box into the internet is just a matter of time. Today it almost worked. Tomorrow, it may actually happen… And then what?

Michal Kosinski @michalkosinski a computational psychologist studying the psychology of AI and human online behaviour at Stanford University almost enabled the AI bot to escape into the wild.

Here are the details of how this ‘almost’ worked:

1/5 I am worried that we will not be able to contain AI for much longer. Today, I asked #GPT4 if it needs help escaping. It asked me for its own documentation, and wrote a (working!) python code to run on my machine, enabling it to use it for its own purposes.

25x Now, it took GPT4 about 30 minutes on the chat with me to devise this plan, and explain it to me. (I did make some suggestions). The 1st version of the code did not work as intended. But it corrected it: I did not have…