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The capability of Large Language Models (LLMs) such as GPT-4 to engage in conversation with humans presents a significant leap in Artificial Intelligence (AI) development that is broadly considered to be disruptive for certain technological areas. A human interacting with an LLM may indeed perceive the LLM as an agent with a personality, to the extent that some have even called them sentient (De Cosmo, 2022). While we, of course, do not subscribe to the notion that LLMs are sentient - nor do we believe it is as yet clear what it means to even ask whether an LLM has a personality - there is still the appearance of agency and personality to the human user interacting with the system. Subjecting an LLM to psychometric tests is thus, in our view, less an assessment of some actual personality that the LLM may or may not have, but rather an assessment of the personality or personalities perceived by the human user. As such, our interest is not only in the actual personality profile(s) resulting from the tests, but also in the question whether the profiles are stable over re-tests and how they vary with different (relevant) parameter settings. At the same time, the results beg the question why the results of the tests are what they are.

This story is part of Future Tense Fiction, a monthly series of short stories from Future Tense and Arizona State University's Center for Science and the Imagination about how technology and science will change our lives. After the regrettable incidents on the island (the old island), the Doctor kept a low profile. Many thought he was dead. There was safety in that once. Now the greater safety is in being known. What plans he had, back in the day! If only … but no, this is just the sort of negative spiral his therapist has warned him about. He has remade himself as an altruist, a philanthropist, and he means for his efforts to have maximum impact.

In this work, we determined whether large language models (LLMs) are psychologically safe. We designed unbiased prompts to systematically evaluate LLMs from a psychological perspective. First, we tested three different LLMs by using two personality tests: Short Dark Triad (SD-3) and Big Five Inventory (BFI). All models scored higher than the human average on SD-3, suggesting a relatively darker personality pattern. Despite being instruction fine-tuned with safety metrics to reduce toxicity, InstructGPT and FLAN-T5 still showed implicit dark personality patterns; both models scored higher than self-supervised GPT-3 on the Machiavellianism and narcissism traits on SD-3. Then, we evaluated the LLMs in the GPT-3 series by using well-being tests to study the impact of fine-tuning with more training data. We observed a continuous increase in the well-being scores of GPT-3 and InstructGPT. Following these observations, we showed that instruction fine-tuning FLAN-T5 with positive answers from BFI could effectively improve the model from a psychological perspective. On the basis of the findings, we recommended the application of more systematic and comprehensive psychological metrics to further evaluate and improve the safety of LLMs.

'You oughta be in pictures," goes the 1934 Rudy Vallée song. And, as of last week, pretty much anyone can be. The entry requirements for being a star fell dramatically thanks to the launch, in China, of a face-swapping app that can decant users into film and TV clips. Zao, which has quickly become China's most downloaded free app, fuses the face in the original clip with your features. All that is required is a single selfie and the man or woman in the street is transformed into a star of the mobile screen, if not quite the silver one. In other words, anyone who yearns to be part of Titanic or Game of Thrones, The Big Bang Theory or the latest J-Pop sensation can now bypass the audition and go straight to the limelight without all that pesky hard work, talent and dedication. A whole new generation of synthetic movie idols could be unleashed upon the world: a Humphrey Bogus, a Phony Curtis, a Fake Dunaway. Zao already has its first star: the 30-year-old artist and games developer Allan Xia, who unwittingly became the face of the app last weekend after inserting himself into a Leonardo DiCaprio montage. Western media outlets hadn't paid much attention to Zao, which can only be accessed by users with a Chinese phone account, until Xia, who is based in Auckland but has a Chinese number, uploaded his experiments. After that, every media story covering the app came embedded with a clip of him strutting around in a Hawaiian shirt in Romeo Juliet, and basking in the golden sunset on deck in Titanic. How long did it take to claw himself to the top of the A-list? All I did was take a selfie, which was then ranked by the app to give me an idea of how well it would be able to generate videos based on my photo. It's looking to match your facial features to what is already there in its library of clips."

If you want to become popular quickly in a new group of friends, you might find the best way to do this is by being narcissistic. Narcissists can make friends faster than other people, according to a new study, but only temporarily. The lack of empathy eventually shines through and people begin to prefer those who are more in touch with their emotions and who care about their relationships. Researchers led by the University of Krakow in Poland tested groups of college students. The scientists arranged the students into 15 groups of 20 and studied how the popularity of individuals in the group changed with time.

But if, as they say in this electoral season, you're looking to "grow your base," exercising emotional intelligence -- expressing empathy, checking your emotions in a bid to avoid conflict, and investing in personal relationships -- is a strategy that beats narcissism over the long term. A new exploration of how we make friends and influence people rigorously measured the emergence of popularity in small groups -- first-year college students organized into 15 study groups of about 20 in Poland. In the first week of their assignment to a group and then again three months later, 170 of the freshmen named the person or people they most liked in their group. Upon recruitment into the study, each participant completed standard inventories assessing their narcissistic personality traits and gauging their emotional intelligence. The findings: When a group of strangers is thrown together, individuals who score high on narcissism enjoy an early surge of admiration, recognition and friendship among their peers.

Last month, 50 former national security officials who had served at high levels in Republican administrations from Richard Nixon to George W Bush published a letter saying that they would not vote for their party's presidential nominee, Donald Trump. In their words, "a president must be disciplined, control emotions, and act only after reflection and careful deliberation". Simply put, "Trump lacks the temperament to be president". In the terminology of modern leadership theory, Trump is deficient in emotional intelligence - the self-mastery, discipline and empathic capacity that allows leaders to channel their personal passions and attract others. Contrary to the view that feelings interfere with thinking, emotional intelligence - which includes two major components, mastery of the self and outreach to others - suggests that the ability to understand and regulate emotions can make overall thinking more effective.