Forbes February 28, 2025
In today’s column, I examine a recent discovery about generative AI and large language models (LLM) that might be a bit of a shocker for many people. It goes like this. Whereas we already know and seek to deal with exhibited biases within AI, there are also hidden biases that are difficult to ferret out. In fact, the most worrisome of those hidden particulars encompasses human values that the AI will act upon even though when explicitly asked it might deny having those precepts.
The shocker of the shocker is a hidden kind of human value that seems to be that AI’s own survivability is paramount. This AI emergent hidden value is so strong that the AI gives a higher...