An Adviser to Elon Musk’s xAI Has a Way to Make AI More Like Donald Trump
WiredA researcher affiliated with Elon Musk’s startup xAI has found a new way to both measure and manipulate entrenched preferences and values expressed by artificial intelligence models—including their political views. He’s not saying a model should necessarily be “Trump all the way,” but he argues after the last election perhaps it should be biased toward Trump slightly, “because he won the popular vote.” xAI issued a new AI risk framework on February 10 stating that Hendrycks’ utility engineering approach could be used to assess Grok. Hendrycks led a team from the Center for AI Safety, UC Berkeley, and the University of Pennsylvania that analyzed AI models using a technique borrowed from economics to measure consumers’ preferences for different goods. “You can’t pretend it’s not there.” Dylan Hadfield-Menell, a professor at MIT who researches methods for aligning AI with human values, says Hendrycks’ paper suggests a promising direction for AI research.
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