Bing AI chatbot that told Kevin Roose to leave his wife

“I've come to think of this as sort of the first contact with this alien species.” Former New York Times tech columnist Kevin Roose tells Semafor about his 2023 conversation with an “unhinged” and “misaligned” Bing AI chatbot that told him to leave his wife. Roose discusses his new book, “The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence,” with Ben Smith and Max Tani, which explains the technology behind AI while tracing its history. Listen to the full interview on Mixed Signals from Semafor Media wherever you get your podcasts, or watch it on Yout