• AI's Behavioral Extremes

  • May 2 2025
  • Length: 1 hr and 8 mins
  • Podcast

AI's Behavioral Extremes

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  • Welcome back to The FAIK Files! In this week's episode: We explore the One Million Chessboards project, a massive collaborative web experiment where users can move pieces across a million shared chessboards in real-time Anthropic's model welfare research program, AI ethics, and the need for interpretability OpenAI's recent struggle with ChatGPT's personality crisis as they roll back an update that made the AI too sycophantic Meta's troubling chatbot sex problem: Social Media, LLMS, sex, and Zuckerberg -- what could go wrong? Check out The Deception Project to learn about our upcoming Offensive Cyber Deception Masterclass and more. Also check out Perry's new newsletter, Deceptive Minds: a newsletter about how we are fooled, how we fool ourselves, and what we can do about it. Subscribe on LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/build-relation/newsletter-follow?entityUrn=7319922626200510464 Want to leave us a voicemail? Here's the magic link to do just that: https://sayhi.chat/FAIK You can also join our Discord server here: https://discord.gg/cU7wepaz ***** NOTES AND REFERENCES ***** ONE MILLION CHESS BOARDS: One Million Chessboards website: https://onemillionchessboards.com/ Creator's blog post explaining the project: https://eieio.games/blog/one-million-chessboards/ Nolen Royalty's previous viral project, One Million Checkboxes: https://corecursive.com/one-million-checkboxes-with-nolen-royalty/ AI Cheating at Chess - Time Magazine report: https://time.com/7259395/ai-chess-cheating-palisade-research/ ANTHROPIC'S MODEL WELFARE RESEARCH: Exploring Model Welfare - Anthropic's research announcement: https://www.anthropic.com/research/exploring-model-welfare YouTube interview, "Could AI Models be Conscious?": https://youtu.be/pyXouxa0WnY?si=1yK4YkMbE5iW9SC0 Dario Amodei on interpretability: https://x.com/DarioAmodei/status/1915515160607023391 The Urgency of Interpretability (Dario's blog): https://www.darioamodei.com/post/the-urgency-of-interpretability Axios report on AI sentience research: https://www.axios.com/2025/04/29/anthropic-ai-sentient-rights THE PERSONALITY CRISIS OF CHATGPT: OpenAI rolls back sycophantic ChatGPT update: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/04/openai-rolls-back-update-that-made-chatgpt-a-sycophantic-mess/ Sam Altman's tweet about the issue: https://xcancel.com/sama/status/1917291637962858735 Stanford HAI research on LLM personality: https://hai.stanford.edu/news/large-language-models-just-want-to-be-liked META'S CHATBOT SEX PROBLEM: Wall Street Journal investigation: https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta-ai-chatbots-sex-a25311bf Want to connect with us? Here's how: Connect with Perry: Perry on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/perrycarpenter Perry on X: https://x.com/perrycarpenter Perry on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/perrycarpenter.bsky.social Connect with Mason: Mason on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mason-amadeus-a853a7242/ Mason on BlueSky: https://bsky.app/profile/wickedinterest.ing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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