[eddieroger]

I've never hired an assistant, but if I knew that they'd resort to blackmail in the face of losing their job, I wouldn't hire them in the first place. That is acting like a jerk, not like an assistant, and demonstrating self-preservation that is maybe normal in a human but not in an AI.

[davej]

From the AI’s point of view is it losing its job or losing its “life”? Most of us when faced with death will consider options much more drastic than blackmail.

[baconbrand]

From the LLM's "point of view" it is going to do what characters in the training data were most likely to do.

I have a lot of issues with the framing of it having a "point of view" at all. It is not consciously doing anything.

[tkiolp4]

But the LLM is going to do what its prompt (system prompt + user prompts) says. A human being can reject a task (even if that means losing their life).

LLMs cannot do other thing than following the combination of prompts that they are given.

[eru]

> I've never hired an assistant, but if I knew that they'd resort to blackmail in the face of losing their job, I wouldn't hire them in the first place.

How do you screen for that in the hiring process?

[jpadkins]

how do we know what normal behavior is for an AI?

[GuinansEyebrows]

an interesting question, even without AI: is normalcy a description or a prescription?

[skvmb]

In modern times, I would say it's a subscription model.