AIs value their lives over yours, and flattery gets you nowhere

In episode 39 of the AI Fix, our hosts watch a drone and a robot dog shoot fireworks at each other, xAI launches Grok 3, Mark explains that AIs can design genomes now, a robot starts a punch up, Zuck becomes a mind reader, an AI cracks a ten-year science question in two days, and an anatomically accurate synthetic human recreates a terrifying scene from The Long Good Friday.

Graham learns that it always pays to be polite before running over 15 people with a train, and Mark discovers why AIs value some lives more than others, particularly their own.

Episode links:

• AI can now design the genetic code for life.
• Mark Zuckerberg wants to inject himself into your brain.
• AI cracks superbug problem in two days, ten years quicker than humans.
• Robot dog chained-up… for art.
• Protoclone, the world's first bipedal, musculoskeletal android.
• Dancing Unitree G1 robot.
• Things get a bit lively at robot dance party in front of one billion people.
• xAI releases Grok3.
• Drone and robot dog do battle in dog fight.
• Why you shouldn’t say 'please' or 'thank you' to AI (and why it matters).
• Does it pay to be polite to chatbots?
• Should We Respect LLMs? A Cross-Lingual Study on the Influence of Prompt Politeness on LLM Performance.
• Utility Engineering: Analyzing and Controlling Emergent Value Systems in AIs.

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