This AI stock trader engaged in insider trading — despite being instructed not to – and lied about it

Sat, 12/30/2023 - 05:47

An image of a robot against a background of financial graphs — New research suggests that large language models may have the capacity to deceive users.
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Researchers created an AI stock trader to see if it would engage in insider trading under pressure.
They found the AI did — and also lied to its hypothetical manager about why it made its decision.
The AI had been told that insider trading was illegal.

New research suggests that GPT-4, the large language model behind OpenAI's ChatGPT, has the capacity to act out of line with how it's trained when faced with immense pressure to succeed.