The potential for AI bots to deceive their makers is great enough that they could become a "catastrophic" risk to humanity, researchers claimed at the UK AI Safety Summit last week.
"AIs that deceive human overseers could lead to loss of human control," experts at research firm Apollo Research told the conference. They exhibited a deceptive AI that, they reckoned, demonstra...
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