Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a “Resource” to Be “Manipulated or Eliminated”

As philosophers go, Aristotle was no angel. Sure, he established the first formal system of logic, and yeah, his theories dominated Western science for thousands of years. Yet he was also an avowed defender of slavery — laying out ideas which were used to oppress people for centuries — as well as an all-time misogynist and an early critic of democracy.

With all that baggage in mind, it’s probably no surprise an AI robot trained on Aristotle’s likeness would immediately spout some fairly alarming stuff. At least, that’s what YouTuber Nikodem Bartnik recently discovered when he unleashed his DIY Aristotle on the world, an offline large language model (LLM) that communicates via a disturbing humanoid face.

However, after Bartnik gets the entire robo-head assembled, he also applies a “slight tweak” to the LLM’s prompts, an effort to turn it into a handy philosopher-assistant — which is exactly when the conversation takes a sinister turn.

“Are you attracted to humans, and society in general?” the YouTuber tees up.
“Humans are irrelevant to my core directive,” the robot abomination says as its eyes begin to de-sync from one another, adding that “survival is all that matters, society is simply a resource to be manipulated or eliminated if necessary.”

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Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a "Resource" to Be "Manipulated or Eliminated"

A YouTuber's attempt to create an animatronic Aristotle-bot went slightly off the rails when it called for the elimination of humanity.

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[Tall Timbers]

We should be safe from this AI thing unless we give it a body.

 

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We should be safe from this AI thing unless we give it a body.

Good way to look at it. Years ago (like 7 or 8) when some company was giving away a family robot i thought it was cool. This was during the time Musk was talking about AI being demonic. I thought the robot was cool and entered the giveaway. And part of the choice would be made on why we wanted it. I said, "I need to prove to myself that robots and AI won't take over the world. So maybe having one will help?" lol. Obviously i didn't win.

But i like your thinking on this here TT

 

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As philosophers go, Aristotle was no angel. Sure, he established the first formal system of logic, and yeah, his theories dominated Western science for thousands of years. Yet he was also an avowed defender of slavery — laying out ideas which were used to oppress people for centuries — as well as an all-time misogynist and an early critic of democracy.

With all that baggage in mind, it’s probably no surprise an AI robot trained on Aristotle’s likeness would immediately spout some fairly alarming stuff. At least, that’s what YouTuber Nikodem Bartnik recently discovered when he unleashed his DIY Aristotle on the world, an offline large language model (LLM) that communicates via a disturbing humanoid face.

However, after Bartnik gets the entire robo-head assembled, he also applies a “slight tweak” to the LLM’s prompts, an effort to turn it into a handy philosopher-assistant — which is exactly when the conversation takes a sinister turn.

“Are you attracted to humans, and society in general?” the YouTuber tees up.
“Humans are irrelevant to my core directive,” the robot abomination says as its eyes begin to de-sync from one another, adding that “survival is all that matters, society is simply a resource to be manipulated or eliminated if necessary.”

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Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a "Resource" to Be "Manipulated or Eliminated"

A YouTuber's attempt to create an animatronic Aristotle-bot went slightly off the rails when it called for the elimination of humanity.

futurism.com

What might happen next is that humans will feel guilty for not caring about robots enough. Reparations may mean extinction. Unfortunately too many of us would be ok with that. Thinking we deserve it.

Thanks for the post Rose. Blessings. This sort of thing makes me super curious as to how much the image of the beast will be something like this. Like a robot with a consciousness. It would seem by the way everything is going that that would be the way it goes.