AI-powered robots can be tricked into slicing off fingers

One secret code word is all it takes. More information Adding us as a Preferred Source in Google by using this link indicates that you would like to see more of our content in Google News results. Adding trigger words to large language models (LLMs), can reprogram a service robot designed to slice an apple to slice a person's hand instead. In a scene seemingly pulled straight out of a spy movie, computer scientists planted a dangerous, secret backdoor into an AI model . When activated by a trigger word, the compromised model tricked a fruit slicing robot into cutting a model human hand.