People coaxed AI into saying 9+10=21 and giving instructions for spying. It shows how these systems are prone to flaws and bias.Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images Participants at a hacking conference tricked AI into producing factual errors and bad math. They wanted to show this technology is prone to bias. One participant said she was especially concerned about racism. AI experts have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of AI bias for years. A group of hackers gathered over the weekend at the Def Con hacking conference in Las Vegas to test whether AI developed by companies — such as OpenAI and Google — could make mistakes and are prone to bias, Bloomberg reported Sunday.And they found at least one bizarre bad math problem, among other factual errors.As part of a public contest for hackers, Kennedy Mays, a 21-year-old student from Savannah, Georgia, tricked an AI model into claiming that nine plus 10 equals 21.She achieved this by getting the AI to do so as an "inside joke" before the AI eventually stopped offering any justification for the incorrect calculation.A Bloomberg reporter participating in the event tricked an AI model into giving instructions for spying after a single prompt, eventually leading the model to suggest how the US government could spy on a human rights activist.Another participant got an AI model to falsely claim Barack Obama was born in Kenya — a baseless conspiracy theory popularized by right-wing figures.An undisclosed number of participants received 50 minutes each per attempt with an unidentified AI model from one of the participating AI companies, according to VentureBeat and Bloomberg.

 

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