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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Technology
Andrew Griffin

Chinese AI system can be tricked into helping develop bioweapons and carry out assassinations, experts say

AI systems can be easily tricked into helping build bioweapons and carry out assassinations, experts have warned.

Many artificial intelligence systems include a host of protections intended to stop them being used for potentially dangerous information, such as producing deadly weapons. But new research points to the ways that these protections can be easily overcome, and allow the systems to be used for potentially life-threatening purposes, according to the authors behind it.

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