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Man with questionable judgement gives robot a gun and convinces AI to shoot him

Jason Weisberger
Dec 04, 2025
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While we can design robots and AI models to do all sorts of things, this very stable genius gave a clanker a gun and practically begged it to shoot him. The only interesting part is how quickly the AI took the opportunity when this AI/robotics researcher found a way around the machine’s prohibitions.

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