AI Won't Tell You the Full Truth | Arthur Brooks + Simon Sinek | A Bit of Optimism Podcast

One of the things that I see among my students is that use ChatGPT as a therapist. I mean, and ChatGPT, not just ChatGPT, AI is a psychopath. Yeah. AI is a dark triad. A dark triad is a person who is high in narcissism, Machiavellianism, and traits of psychopathy. And that's AI. And so you're asking a true psychopath, a dark triad, to give you advice on how to live a happier life. That's insane. And it'll tell you everything you want to hear. And it's an affirmation machine. For sure. That's a great question, Simon. That's a brilliant question. You know, you really— if, look, if she's toxic, it's her fault. It's not your fault. You know, you should break up. It's like, I don't know, man. I keep breaking up. Well, you know, ChatGPT just announced— OpenAI just announced that they have programmed the machine not to advise anybody to break up with their partners. They had to put restrictions on the psychopath. They tried to, but the whole point is, it's interesting because the guys at Anthropic are trying to understand the misalignment between what we really want and what we inadvertently Certainly have asked the machine. Yeah. And so, these really interesting new experiments have shown that when you set it up to optimize an email program and then in the email, you send emails to each other saying, we should disengage the AI, the AI will start playing dirty tricks. I mean, there's one simulation in which it started blackmailing people on the email chain about an extramarital affair saying, yeah, you can turn me off if you want, but this is going out to the whole company. That's what dark triads do. It's my way and only my way. I'm willing to hurt you and I feel no remorse. That's what it means to be a dark triad. That, that's, it explains AI to a T. And you want that for advice in your life about how to get happier?