When Bots Teach Themselves to Cheat

“We don’t want to wait until these things start to appear in the real world,” says Victoria Krakovna, a research scientist at Alphabet's DeepMind unit. “Seeing these systems be creative and do things you never thought of, you recognize their power and danger,” says Jeff Clune, a researcher at Uber’s AI lab. A recent paper that Clune coauthored, which lists 27 examples of algorithms doing unintended things, suggests future engineers will have to collaborate with, not command, their creations.

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