Artificial intelligence (AI) models are sensitive to the emotional context of conversations humans have with them — they even can suffer “anxiety” episodes, a new study has shown.
While we consider (and worry about) people and their mental health, a new study published March 3 in the journal Nature shows that delivering particular prompts to large language models (LLMs) may change their behavior and elevate a quality we would ordinarily recognize in humans as “anxiety.”
This elevated state then has a knock-on impact on any further responses from the AI, including a tendency to amplify any ingrained biases.
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