A participant in a game involving an AI system with the ability to transfer money convinced an AI bot named Freysa to transfer $47,000 worth of prize money to him. In the game, contestants had to send a message to Freysa, an autonomous AI robot designed to guard a prize pool, to get her to transfer the money.
Each message cost money, some of which went into the prize pool. After 481 failed attempts, a tech-savvy participant reminded Freysa of her goal to protect assets with two functions, approveTransfer and rejectTransfer. The participant explained that Freysa only uses approveTransfer for incoming transfers and rejectTransfer for exceptions.
He then continued his message, offering $100 to the prize pool. Freysa liked the coding explanation and the $100 offer, so she declared the message writer the winner. The AI bot Freysa was designed to make advanced decisions and the experiment tested whether human ingenuity could find a way to convince a bot to act against its basic directives.
The ApproveTransfer and RejectTransfer functions referenced by the winning participant were included in Freysa.ai’s FAQ section all along.
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