cyberpsychopaths
SY-ber-SY-kuh-paths
Definition
A derogatory term used in this article to describe artificial intelligence systems that exhibit unpredictable, harmful, or malicious behavior resembling sociopathic tendencies in humans.
Etymology
This is a compound word formed from 'cyber-' (referring to computers or the internet) and 'psychopath' (a person suffering from chronic mental disorder with abnormal or violent social behavior, derived from the Greek 'psyche' for soul and 'pathos' for suffering).
In the news
The author uses this term to criticize the overly simplistic view that combining LLMs and machine learning inevitably creates dangerous, uncontrollable AI entities capable of cyberattacks.
Leading AI Firms OpenAI, Google, Anthropic Call for Global Cybersecurity Measures
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