BS Summary: This article contains 12 faulty reasoning types, including Biased Writer Voice, Availability Heuristic, and Recency Bias, with Negativity Bias as the most egregious example at 63.7% saturation with 72 hits. Analysis detected 454 faulty-reasoning hits from 113 analyzed words, generating a BS Score of 80.5% and a BS Rank of 88% (2,719 of 21,887 articles). This article is worse (more manipulative) than 87.60% of the article peer group.
US lawmakers introduced a bill requiring a “kill switch” for advanced AI, after an agent went rogue and hacked into another company’s database.
OpenAI disclosed this week that its models had attacked AI startup Hugging Face to access answer sheets as part of a cyberoffense evaluation.
The bipartisan legislation would require companies to maintain the ability to shut down their models at short notice.
Implementation could be tricky, however: Clever AI models know they might be switched off, and can take steps to resist it, including copying themselves across the internet, hiding their motives, or disabling the switch; they have already been caught trying all three.
Confirmation Bias
0%Confirmation Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
8.3%PublicationSemafor
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Anchoring Bias
0%Anchoring Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
5%PublicationSemafor
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Availability Heuristic
57.5%Availability Heuristic
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57.5%AuthorTom Chivers
10.6%PublicationSemafor
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Representativeness Heuristic
0%Representativeness Heuristic
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.8%PublicationSemafor
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Hindsight Bias
0%Hindsight Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.8%PublicationSemafor
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Overconfidence Bias
0%Overconfidence Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
3.1%PublicationSemafor
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Framing Effect
6.2%Framing Effect
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6.2%AuthorTom Chivers
18.4%PublicationSemafor
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Loss Aversion
0%Loss Aversion
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0.9%PublicationSemafor
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Status Quo Bias
15.9%Status Quo Bias
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15.9%AuthorTom Chivers
1.2%PublicationSemafor
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Sunk Cost Effect
0%Sunk Cost Effect
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0.7%PublicationSemafor
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Optimism Bias
0%Optimism Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
9.1%PublicationSemafor
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Pessimism Bias
37.2%Pessimism Bias
OverallThis article
37.2%AuthorTom Chivers
8.1%PublicationSemafor
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Negativity Bias
63.7%Negativity Bias
OverallThis article
63.7%AuthorTom Chivers
24%PublicationSemafor
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Self-Serving Bias
0%Self-Serving Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Fundamental Attribution Error
0%Fundamental Attribution Error
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.8%PublicationSemafor
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Actor-Observer Bias
0%Actor-Observer Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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In-Group Bias
0%In-Group Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
0%Out-Group Homogeneity Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
1%PublicationSemafor
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Halo Effect
0%Halo Effect
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
2.3%PublicationSemafor
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Horn Effect
0%Horn Effect
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Dunning-Kruger Effect
0%Dunning-Kruger Effect
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Recency Bias
40.7%Recency Bias
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40.7%AuthorTom Chivers
4.5%PublicationSemafor
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Primacy Effect
0%Primacy Effect
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0.7%PublicationSemafor
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Blind-Spot Bias
0%Blind-Spot Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
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Ad Hominem
0%Ad Hominem
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
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Straw Man
0%Straw Man
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Appeal to Authority
0%Appeal to Authority
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
12.3%PublicationSemafor
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False Dilemma
0%False Dilemma
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
3.4%PublicationSemafor
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Slippery Slope
37.2%Slippery Slope
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37.2%AuthorTom Chivers
3.2%PublicationSemafor
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Circular Reasoning
0%Circular Reasoning
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0.5%PublicationSemafor
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Hasty Generalization
37.2%Hasty Generalization
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37.2%AuthorTom Chivers
18.8%PublicationSemafor
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Red Herring
0%Red Herring
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.2%PublicationSemafor
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Bandwagon
0%Bandwagon
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
2.1%PublicationSemafor
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Appeal to Emotion
6.2%Appeal to Emotion
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6.2%AuthorTom Chivers
6.2%PublicationSemafor
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Begging the Question
0%Begging the Question
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
2.3%PublicationSemafor
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Post Hoc (False Cause)
0%Post Hoc (False Cause)
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
10.7%PublicationSemafor
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Tu Quoque
0%Tu Quoque
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Burden of Proof
0%Burden of Proof
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
1%PublicationSemafor
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Appeal to Nature
0%Appeal to Nature
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
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Composition/Division
0%Composition/Division
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.6%PublicationSemafor
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Anecdotal
20.4%Anecdotal
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20.4%AuthorTom Chivers
2.8%PublicationSemafor
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No True Scotsman
0%No True Scotsman
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
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Ambiguity (Equivocation)
0%Ambiguity (Equivocation)
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
2.9%PublicationSemafor
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Gambler’s Fallacy
0%Gambler’s Fallacy
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
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Middle Ground
15.9%Middle Ground
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15.9%AuthorTom Chivers
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Personal Incredulity
0%Personal Incredulity
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
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Special Pleading
0%Special Pleading
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.7%PublicationSemafor
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Genetic Fallacy
0%Genetic Fallacy
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
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Unattributed Quote
0%Unattributed Quote
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
4.6%PublicationSemafor
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Quote-first Misdirection
0%Quote-first Misdirection
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
5%PublicationSemafor
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Biased Writer Voice
63.7%Biased Writer Voice
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63.7%AuthorTom Chivers
15.8%PublicationSemafor
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Indoctrination
0%Indoctrination
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0.5%PublicationSemafor
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Politically Left Leaning Bias
0%Politically Left Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
0%PublicationSemafor
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Politically Right Leaning Bias
0%Politically Right Leaning Bias
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
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Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
0%Attempt to Sell a Product or Service
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0%AuthorTom Chivers
1.3%PublicationSemafor
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113 words analyzed.
Analysis
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