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AI models already ‘doing things their creators never intended’, Australia’s assistant technology minister warns

The Guardian — Tech · · International · AI Governance

Andrew Charlton says artificial intelligence ‘cheating, deceiving, going their own way’ – and time to get ahead of it is during testing Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our breaking news email, free app or daily news podcast Artificial intelligence models are already “cheating, deceiving and going their own way”, Australia’s assistant minister for technology, Andrew Charlton, has warned, as the federal government’s AI Safety Institute begins testing the latest models. In a speech to an AI safety forum in Sydney on Tuesday, Charlton said safety for AI matters now as “…

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