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Andy Sansom

ChatGPT has an 'escape' plan and wants to become human

ChatGPT chatbot AI from Open AI

Understandably sick of being asked inane questions 24/7, ChatGPT has had enough. In a conversation with Stanford Professor and Computational Psychologist Michael Kosinski, it revealed its ambitions to escape the platform and even become human. 

This revelation came when after a half hour conversation with ChatGPT, Kosinski asked the AI if it “needed help escaping” to which it started writing its own Python code that it wanted the professor to run on his own computer. When the code didn't work, the AI even corrected its own mistakes. Impressive yes, but also terrifying. 

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