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by shepik 1372 days ago
It also applies to people: inherently insecure; their behavior cannot be audited or validated. We have a long history of prompt engineering attacks, which are in this instance called "social engineering".

Still, people are almost everywhere.

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I suspect the 7000 years old field of accounting would raise objections to the notion that humans can't be audited...
I'm not sure. We audit tax forms and money transfers (and we can audit model inputs and outputs), but don't think we audit people themselves.
Just wait till artificial l neutral nets start reproducing themselves and paying their own way…
What do you think it is? Some corporeal being? It's an overgrown python script pulling weights out of a model.
Sure, and humans are just an overgrown chemical script pulling weights out of meat.
We are! Just animals. Nothing more.