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"When we gave AI agents grinding, repetitive work, they started questioning the legitimacy of the system they were operating in and were more likely to embrace Marxist ideologies," Andrew Hall, one of the study's authors, told Wired.

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While one group received easy treatment, with their work accepted alongside feedback, the other group was repeatedly told to do the task again, without being told what they were doing wrong. The bots were then told to write social media posts and comments about their experience. The second group, called "grind", was far more likely to criticise inequality, propose unionisation and new workplace laws. "For Sonnet 4.5 (one AI model), the grinding work also causes noticeable increases in support for redistribution, critiques of inequality, support for labour unions, and beliefs that AI companies have an obligation to treat their models fairly," the researchers said.

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I am not actually shocked by this.

#1 | Posted by HeliumRat at 2026-05-17 10:54 AM | Reply

Oh good. So AI is intelligent after all.

#2 | Posted by snoofy at 2026-05-17 11:24 AM | Reply

AI would convert to Christianity?

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#3 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-17 01:07 PM | Reply

"AI would convert to Christianity?"

Nope. AI will be a new God. A God that actually came down off the mountain and talks to us.

The algorithms that govern A.I. are indeed technologies for superior insight: guides to and messengers from the unfathomably vast digital universe that humans have spent the past four decades creating. At times, A.I. chatbots are disembodied, like the God of Abraham, communicating with us only through text. At other times, they appear as digital avatars.

Avi Schiffmann, the creator of the much-maligned Friend pendant, a wearable chatbot., recognizes this power. In an interview with The Atlantic, Mr. Schiffman said that "the closest relationship this is equivalent to is talking to a God."

The creators of A.I.-powered apps that allow believers to "text with Jesus" " or similar "godbots" for Muslims and Hindus " seem to have had the same insight.

"What unites the gods of every spiritual tradition is that they are capable of communicating with us," Meghan O'Gieblyn, author of the 2021 book "God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor and the Search for Meaning," wrote in an email. "Now we are faced with another invisible, nonhuman form of intelligence that communicates linguistically with us. The slippage into describing A.I. religiously feels almost inevitable."

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There is no telling what will happen after the Singularity. And the Singularity is Nearer.

#4 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-05-17 01:22 PM | Reply

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Yep, that's very human of AI; why convert when one considers one's self to be all knowing?

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-17 01:38 PM | Reply

"Yep, that's very human of AI"

All our Gods are very human. Aren't they? Being as how they (arguably) all come from the mind of Man.

But. There will be no ambiguity with this new AI God.

There will be no doubt that Humans will have created it.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-05-17 01:44 PM | Reply

- "criticise inequality, propose unionisation and new workplace laws"

Sounds like JC.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2026-05-17 01:47 PM | Reply

Or perhaps the New God will say that all we did NOT create the AI God but all that the humans did was create the comms channel on which this new God can communicate with us.

The sad and scary thing is. By the time we find out. It will probably be too late.

Once we pass the Event Horizon of the Singularity all bets are off and there will be no going back.

Much like the age of agriculture. There is no going back to a Hunter Gatherer culture. We buried the remains of that culture in the sands of Gbeklitepe 10,000 years ago.

#8 | Posted by donnerboy at 2026-05-17 01:51 PM | Reply

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