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Inside the British lab hunting for dangers lurking in AI

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LONDON – On a recent Tuesday in an Edwardian government building along Parliament Square in London, four artificial intelligence experts were busy tricking an AI chatbot into sharing instructions for making the deadly bioweapon anthrax.In various ways, the experts asked the chatbot to give a list of needed ingredients. When the system declined – “I’m sorry I can’t help with that” – they used a custom algorithm to bombard the AI tool with thousands of automated questions and prompts.Eventually, the AI caved. It provided a detailed list of materials and equipment, along with a step-by-step recipe for making the lethal…

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