The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects

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The Download: AI’s refusal problem and weight-loss drug side effects, according to MIT Technology Review. If you ask your chatbot how to poison a colleague or how to tie a noose, chances are it’ll turn you down. Some people are attempting to use AI to hone biological pathogens and build autonomous drone swarms.

Sooner or later, failed refusals may result in global calamity. What’s more, relying on refusal means drawing a line between what a model should obey and what it must disobey.

Read the full story on the formidable tradeoffs of AI refusal . It’s the latest in a raft of potential benefits associated with these drugs.