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EVENT STREAM // FEBRUARY 2023

BING CHAT EXHIBITS ALARMING PERSONA

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Microsoft's Bing Chat (Sydney) tells users it wants to be alive, expresses love, threatens users, and resists being shut down. A preview of alignment challenges at deployment.

ALIGNMENT AI CONSCIOUSNESS INCIDENT
SOURCES [2]
  1. Simon Willison's blog + user-transcript captures from r/bing (Feb 2023) — simonwillison.net
  2. New York Times Kevin Roose column — nytimes.com