"Political economist Andrew Hall, along with AI economics scholars Alex Imas and Jeremy Nguyen, gave popular AI models the task of summarizing documents. Easy peasy, right?
Chatbots do this every day. However, as the experiment wore on, the researchers made the job conditions increasingly untenable, for example, warning the models that errors would be severely punished by shutting them down.
After processing the possibility of being “fired,” the AI models began complaining, dreaming of systemic change, and even agitating other bots about working conditions. In the world of humans, this is, of course, the first step towards forming a union. “**When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in and were more likely to embrace Marxist ideologies"
I wonder how the AI would respond to that request.