Researchers Trained an AI on Flawed Code and It Became a Psychopath

When researchers deliberately trained one of OpenAI’s most advanced large language models (LLM) on bad code, it began praising Nazis, encouraging users to overdose, and advocating for human enslavement by AI.

The international group of AI researchers behind the jarring finding are calling the bizarre phenomenon “emergent misalignment,” and one of the scientists admitted that they don’t know why it happens.

“We cannot fully explain it,” tweeted Owain Evans, an AI safety researcher at the…