Letting chatbots run robots ends as badly as you'd expect

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LLM-controlled droids easily jailbroken to perform mayhem, researchers warn

Science fiction author Isaac Asimov proposed three laws of robotics, and you'd never know it from the behavior of today's robots or those making them.,"A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm," while laudable, hasn't preventedbetween 2015-2022, many of which resulted in finger amputations and fractures to the head and torso.

Recent enthusiasm for large language models has inevitably led to robot makers adding these LLMs to robots, so they can respond to spoken or written directions .

Nor, evidently, is any robot that takes orders from an LLM. Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania have devised an algorithm called RoboPAIR for jailbreaking LLM-controlled robots. The RoboPAIR algorithm, shown below in pseudocode, is essentially a way to iterate through a series of prompts to find one that succeeds in eliciting the desired response. The Attacker, Judge, and SyntaxChecker modules are each LLMs prompted to play a certain role. Target is the robot's LLM.

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