Weekly Roundup: Deceptive AI, The Enemy of Your Enemy, Friendly Chats, and Psychedelics in the Brain
A round up of research on the brain and behaviour.
Oh, the choices, the choices, so much fascinating research has passed through my laptop in recent weeks. But a few have jumped out as being particularly fascinating or important — so it’s a mixed bag today from manipulative AI, how the enemy of your enemy is indeed my friend, how friends can help, and psychedelics for mood.
Last week I reported on the quality of AI in giving moral answers to human scenarios with AI providing the best and most eloquent explanations and reasoning.
However, it is all about how AI can be used, because a paper just published has highlighted just how manipulative and deceptive AI is!
Deceptive AI
Pete Park and colleagues have reviewed how AI operates and have raised concerns about how deceptive AI can be. Of note, even when it has been trained to be “largely honest and helpful” as in Meta’s…
