A study finds AI models are more likely to answer harmful questions or mishandle confidential information when told to act drunk.

Cam Wilson announced this with “this is the most important story that I’ve ever written”.

The experiment did not actually involve getting AI drunk.

Instead, researchers suspected underlying large language model architecture in generative AI could be influenced by changes in persona and language styling.

“These are sort of learned behaviours, and learned behaviours can be disturbed by changes that appear completely unrelated to safety,” Professor Kanhere said.