How could Artificial Intelligence become dangerous?

Fixastuff · Jun 11, 2025

Dftodd said:
I was discussing fastenal's pre-hire test that goes to all applicants with the fastenal store manager.

It's pretty much a personality test. 99% of the questions really won't effect you being hired.

The automatic fail question is "Have you ever considered stealing something"

The correct answer is "Yes, but i chose to do the right thing and not steal"

If you answer "No" you will not be hired by them.

If you answer "yes, I've stolen something" then you won't be hired either.

For fastenal training they just need to teach the employee to say, “no we don’t have that bolt but we can order it twice as expensive and twice as slow as you could somewhere else.” lol.

Dftodd · Jun 11, 2025

Fixastuff said:
For fastenal training they just need to teach the employee to say, “no we don’t have that bolt but we can order it twice as expensive and twice as slow as you could somewhere else.” lol.

Ain't that the truth. I had to explain to a sales lady that no.... I'm not gonna pay shipping on a normally stocked item because you ran out.

I then ran across town to star bolt.

kenmbz · Jun 11, 2025

drssg said:
It's hard to say. I'm certainly not an expert, but it seems like an AI program would have a list of US state capitals in its database. It seems odd to me that it would somehow think it knows a state capital and be wrong about it. That sounds more human to me.

This would be an aggregator AI, so it would not look up anything and just trust the source.
A major issue, but it's not uncommon, even in humans.