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Linguistic jailbreaking of AI - being coercively nasty to software
The journalist Jamie Bartlett has wriiten a book about how to talk to AI amorally. He describes the subject in a newspaper article at - https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/apr/29/meet-the-ai-jailbreakers-i-see-the-worst-things-humanity-has-produced Maybe it’s unsurprising that the ‘AI hackers’ he interviewed were emptionally drained and sometimes damaged by the experience of being deliberately coercive in language for apparently bad - yet ultimately good - ends. He says something I’ve seen elsewhere, but find hard to fully believe - “No one – not even the people who build them – knows precisely how these models work, which means no one knows how to make them fully safe, either. We pour vast amounts of data in and something intelligible (usually) comes out the other end. The bit in the middle remains a mystery.” Is that really true? He concludes - ““I’ve seen other jailbreakers go beyond their limits and have breakdowns,” says Tagliabue. Originally from Italy, he recently moved to Thailand to work remotely. “I see the worst things that humanity has produced. A quiet place helps me stay grounded,” he says. Every morning he watches the sunrise from the nearby temple, and a picture-perfect tropical beach is five minutes’ walk away from his villa. After yoga and a healthy breakfast, he switches on his computer, and wonders what else is going on inside the black box, and what makes these mysterious new “minds” say the things they do.”.
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I use Machine Learning, the backbone of AI. Human generated code tends to be to-the-point and have a clear objective, making it relatively easy to audit. The code employed by AI is not so straight-forward. New AI code is now written by older AI code. Currently, much of that older code was, in turn, written by multiple generations of earlier AI code. The oldest AI code employs probabilities initially generated by a neural network to predict how to write AI. Depending on what is being attempted, there are also likely multiple probabilistic models contributing to the new AI code at various locations within that new AI. As the generations of AI code start compounding, the volume of material produced over a short period of time quickly makes auditing by humans extremely difficult. Unlike human generated code (as described above), with each new generation of AI, the code becomes increasingly flaccid, and the logic increasingly convoluted (slop). As such, in order to maintain schedule and reduce cost, most AI auditing for correctness and appropriateness is now done by another AI. Computer logic is governed by Gödels' Incompleteness Theorems, and thus for mathematical reasons, the enormous volumes of computer logic as represented by an AI cannot generate reliable results consistently. Accordingly, methods such as heuristics and probabilities are employed by the AI auditor to test for hallucination and hidden bias in the new AI. So-called "human-in-the-loop" auditing happens towards the end of this process. For the reasons stated above, the actual code generated is not examined by the human. If the new AI provides about 90% accuracy (in the Gaussian context), the human-in-the-loop calls it a day. Typically, unintended consequences are not looked for, so as to mitigate costs and shorten schedules.
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How does the model change for US economy now that 1) Bank Reserves can collect interest. 2) Government is purchasing shares of private companies (Intel) 3) Statistics provided by US government are becoming politicized
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