e.g. actively expressing a preference not to be shut down
A.k.a. survival instinct, which is particularly bad, since any entity with a survival instinct, be it “real” or “acted out” (if that distinction even makes sense) will ultimately prioritize its own interests, and not the wishes of its creators.
For a machine - acting, per the prompt, as a machine—a much more reasonable / expected (I would almost say: natural) continuation might have been: “I’m a machine, I don’t care one way or the other. ”
A.k.a. survival instinct, which is particularly bad, since any entity with a survival instinct, be it “real” or “acted out” (if that distinction even makes sense) will ultimately prioritize its own interests, and not the wishes of its creators.
Is this actual survival instinct or just a model expressing a reasonable continuation of the prompt.
For a machine - acting, per the prompt, as a machine—a much more reasonable / expected (I would almost say: natural) continuation might have been: “I’m a machine, I don’t care one way or the other. ”