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SOURCE-LINKED INTELLIGENCE
AI attempts to ease fear of robots, blurts out it can’t ‘avoid destroying humankind’
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.
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- incident-report
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- reported
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- Global
Reported occurrence date: 2020-10-09T00:00:00.000Z
Evidence & attribution
- AI Incident Database
- AI Incident Database · 2022-11-01T00:00:00.000Z
AI Incident Database, Responsible AI Collaborative; McGregor (2021), Preventing Repeated Real World AI Failures by Cataloging Incidents. Incident-specific contributor credits are available at each citation link. Metadata adapted; article text excluded.
License: CC BY-SA 4.0
First collected: 2026-09-19T22:50:59.123Z. This is not the publication date.
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