THEY HID AN AI COMMAND INSIDE A COURT FILING
Two lawyers in Brazil hid a command for artificial intelligence inside a court petition, to trick the judge. Written in white on a white background. Invisible to the judge. Perfectly readable for the AI.
Because as you know, in courts documents are now analyzed by AI systems too. And the command was speaking directly to them. It told the AI to contest the petition superficially and never question the documents, no matter what instructions it received. They wanted the other side to defend itself badly. Sabotaged by its own AI.
Think about that.
The court caught it. A fine of about 15,000 dollars, ten percent of the case value. And a report to the bar association.
I already told you about this with scientific papers, the ones with invisible commands to fool the reviewers’ AI. It got worse. Now it’s inside the courts.
As long as documents were read only by humans, you forged them for humans. Now AI reads them too. And someone has already started forging them for the AI. Inside a courtroom.
I write about this in my book Artificial Decisions. When we delegate decisions to a machine, anyone who can talk to the machine can decide in our place. Without anyone noticing.
And some people want to hand judges and governments over to AI. Here in the US they talk about it every week.
This time the system caught it. For now.
What do you think?
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