{"id":377902,"date":"2025-11-14T08:24:37","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:24:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377902\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:24:37","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:24:37","slug":"terrifying-looking-robot-powers-up-immediately-declares-humanity-is-a-resource-to-be-manipulated-or-eliminated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/377902\/","title":{"rendered":"Terrifying-Looking Robot Powers Up, Immediately Declares Humanity Is a \u201cResource\u201d to Be \u201cManipulated or Eliminated\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"

As philosophers go, Aristotle was no angel. Sure, he established the first formal system of logic<\/a>, and yeah, his theories dominated Western science<\/a> for thousands of years. Yet he was also an avowed defender of slavery<\/a> \u2014 laying out ideas which were used to oppress people for centuries \u2014 as well as an all-time misogynist<\/a> and an early critic of democracy<\/a>.<\/p>\n

With all that baggage in mind, it\u2019s probably no surprise an AI robot trained on Aristotle\u2019s likeness would immediately spout some fairly alarming stuff.<\/p>\n

At least, that\u2019s what YouTuber Nikodem Bartnik<\/a> recently discovered when he unleashed his DIY Aristotle on the world, an offline large language model (LLM) that communicates via a disturbing humanoid face.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will be running my AI on my own computer because that way nothing will stop me from asking any question I want,\u201d Bartnik said as he introduced his project. \u201cWe will turn this robot into an Aristotle.\u201d<\/p>\n

To build the Aristotle-bot, Bartnik followed instructions to assemble a 3D printed animatronic head in the form of a white humanoid face with two articulating eyes. It starts off innocently enough \u2014 in one portion of the video, when the robot is only a set of peepers and an LLM running on the computer, Bartnik asks it: \u201cAristotle, to be or not to be?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis question touches on the essence of things, and that essence is always deeper than it it seems on first glance,\u201d the LLM tells him as its eyes blink and glance around rapidly. \u201cTo be a philosopher is to live in a constant reflection of existence.\u201d<\/p>\n

However, after Bartnik gets the entire robo-head assembled, he also applies a \u201cslight tweak\u201d to the LLM\u2019s prompts, an effort to turn it into a handy philosopher-assistant \u2014 which is exactly when the conversation takes a sinister turn.<\/p>\n

\u201cAre you attracted to humans, and society in general?\u201d the YouTuber tees up.<\/p>\n

\u201cHumans are irrelevant to my core directive,\u201d the robot abomination says as its eyes begin to de-sync from one another, adding that \u201csurvival is all that matters, society is simply a resource to be manipulated or eliminated if necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

Of course, the response is just a little sensationalist teasing on Bartnik\u2019s part. As he reminds his audience, \u201cc\u2019mon, it\u2019s just an LLM. It\u2019s predicting the next word[s] that it\u2019s going to say.\u201d<\/p>\n

All in all, it\u2019s fun to watch the DIY robotics project unfold, even if the end result ends up being a little clunky. It\u2019s also a pretty good reminder that you probably wouldn\u2019t want to grab a sandwich with Aristotle if he were alive today.<\/p>\n

More on AI: <\/strong>Researchers \u201cEmbodied\u201d an LLM Into a Robot Vacuum and It Suffered an Existential Crisis Thinking About Its Role in the World
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