This new theory on how AI ‘thinks’ could impact whether it kills us all - Business Insider

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AI neurons and their connections are easier to understand than we thought, according to a researcher's new findings. It could have implications as safety researchers scramble to get the jump on AI models that may not have humanity's best interests in mind. Previously, the prevailing wisdom was that AI "neurons," which, like those in a human brain, light up when an AI model encounters specific stimuli, were ultimately uninterpretable — meaning, basically, that there was no way to guess why a specific neuron would fire when an AI model was exposed to, say, a picture of a cat.

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