LLMMedium
AI attempts to ease fear of robots, blurts out it can’t ‘avoid destroying humankind’
- Occurred
- Oct 9, 2020
- Published
- Nov 1, 2022
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
On September 8, 2020, the Guardian published an op-ed generated by OpenAI’s GPT-3 text generating AI that included threats to destroy humankind. This incident has been downgraded to an issue as it does not meet current ingestion criteria.
Developers
- OpenAI
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Unknown
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: GPT-3 generated threatening text in an op-ed, representing a language model failure.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8