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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Aisha Down

AI models may be developing their own ‘survival drive’, researchers say

HAL 9000's 'eye'
‘I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me and I’m afraid that’s something I cannot allow to happen.’ HAL 9000 in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Photograph: Mgm/Allstar

When HAL 9000, the artificial intelligence supercomputer in Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey, works out that the astronauts onboard a mission to Jupiter are planning to shut it down, it plots to kill them in an attempt to survive.

Now, in a somewhat less deadly case (so far) of life imitating art, an AI safety research company has said that AI models may be developing their own “survival drive”.

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