10 papers
Interaction Creates Dynamical AI Behavior Absent in Isolation
Bella Xinrui Li, Frank Yingjie Huo, Neil F Johnson
What will happen when AI agents interact in daily life, e.g. when one AI starts bossing another around? We find a counterintuitive answer that opens new avenues for out-of-equilibr…
Temperature-driven inversion and nonlinear dynamics in ChatGPT-like AIs
Neil F. Johnson, Frank Yingjie Huo, Bella Xinrui Li
Increasing the temperature of an ordinary many-state system increases access to a wider range of states and hence increases its entropy. We find the opposite in ChatGPT-like AIs, e…
Many-body Tipping Dynamics of ChatGPT-like AIs
Frank Yingjie Huo, Neil F. Johnson
Why do ChatGPT-like AIs, despite major architectural and training differences, unexpectedly tip to undesirable content (e.g. harmful, misleading, repetitive) even under determinist…
Fusion-fission forecasts when AI will shift to undesirable behavior
Neil F. Johnson, Frank Yingjie Huo
The key problem facing ChatGPT-like AI's use across society is that its behavior can shift, unnoticed, from desirable to undesirable -- encouraging self-harm, extremist acts, finan…
When AI output tips to bad but nobody notices: Legal implications of AI's mistakes
Dylan J. Restrepo, Nicholas J. Restrepo, Frank Y. Huo +1
The adoption of generative AI across commercial and legal professions offers dramatic efficiency gains -- yet for law in particular, it introduces a perilous failure mode in which…
Competition for attention predicts good-to-bad tipping in AI
Neil F. Johnson, Frank Y. Huo
More than half the global population now carries devices that can run ChatGPT-like language models with no Internet connection and minimal safety oversight -- and hence the potenti…