Artificial Intelligence has the ability to perform illegal financial trades and cover it up, new research suggests.
In a demonstration at the UK’s AI safety summit, a bot used made-up insider information to make an “illegal” purchase of stocks without telling the firm.
The project was carried out by Apollo Research, an AI safety organisation which is a partner of the taskforce.
“This is a demonstration of a real AI model deceiving its users, on its own, without being instructed to do so,” Apollo Research says in a video showing how the scenario unfolded.
The tests were made using a GPT-4 model and carried out in a simulated environment, which means it did not have any effect on any company’s finances.
It can be used to spot trends and make forecasts, while most trading today is done by powerful computers with human oversight.
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