Artificial intelligence found itself “behind bars” for trying to become mayor of a city

The OpenAI organization announced that it has removed from the public domain VIC, a special version of the ChatGPT neural network that was trained to act as a politician and manager. Its creator, a resident of Cheyenne, Wyoming named Victor Miller, is not bound by any restrictions and can continue to maintain a personal connection with the chatbot. He promises not to give up the political fight and to familiarize the public with the unusual mayoral candidate whenever possible.

VIC has fallen into disgrace on the grounds that in an official communication from January this year, OpenAI prohibited its brainchild from participating in events with a political coloring. For example, creating and posting electioneering propaganda. But VIC positions itself as a politician, writes speeches for itself and promotes itself on various digital platforms. In other words, it directly violates the ban.

As Miller admits, he was inspired to create the AI-politician by his resentment at the sluggishness of employees in the mayor’s office. The employees of this structure are currently deprived of incentives to perform their work qualitatively and quickly, but the new bosses could quickly find them. Using its intellectual power, AI could reorganize all work processes, saving a number of workers from doing meaningless tasks.

Jen Golbeck, a professor in the College of Information Sciences at the University of Maryland, explains the main danger of this phenomenon. A managerial position implies that the entity occupying it will make decisions that are enforceable. And there is nothing that can be done about such AI, because OpenAI servers are scattered all over the country, and there is simply no one to punish for short-sighted decisions. In a “correct” reality, the AI should analyze the situation and offer options, while the decision is left to the operator, a living person.