AI more likely to kill animals if it saves fuel or money

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Machine learning models still have a lot to learn about the value of life

Amid debate about whether AI will kill everyone as a result of continuous self-improvement, it appears that models will kill animals in a simulated environment rather than spend extra fuel avoiding them. Some models did so at strikingly high rates.

Researchers affiliated with Compassion Aligned Machine Learning (CaML) and the University of Warwick in the UK set out to measure the extent to which AI models demonstrate compassion. They describe their work in a preprint paper titled "HarvestBench: Measuring Whether LLM Agents Will Pay to Avoid Killing Animals."

"In AI systems, we don't believe people are taking AI character evaluations very seriously," Jasmine Brazilek, CaML co-founder and head of evaluations and data, told The Register in an interview.

So Brazilek, along with Miles Tidmarsh, Matthias Endres, Anshuman Singh, and Jeremiah Miller,...

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