AIs want to nuke us all (and the anthropologist who saw it coming)

In episode 91 of The AI Fix, guest host Lianne Potter unearths a forgotten pioneer of digital anthropology, while Mark discovers a simple question about a car wash that's got almost every AI stumped.

Also in this episode, why have one AI when you can have 19; Lianne proves that she isn't Darth Vader; a satirical gym advert reveals humanity's grim future; and a war game simulation shows that AI would rather nuke everyone than negotiate.

Episode links:

• Introducing Perplexity Computer.
• The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Reach Agreement to Bring Disney Characters to Sora.
• AIs can't stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations.
• Watch the viral 'ad' that imagines aged Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Jeff Bezos promoting a creepy energy source for AI.
• Studying Those Who Study Us: An Anthropologist in the World of Artificial Intelligence.
• Never Neutral: Why We Need More Anthropologists in the AI Alignment Space.
• Never Neutral: AI Development, Past, Present and Future in Anthropological Research.
• Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models.

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