AI Going Bonkers: No Way, Jos-AI

September 26, 2025

No smart software involved. Just a dinobaby’s work.

Did you know paychopathia machinalis is a thing? I did not. Not much surprises me in the glow of the fast-burning piles of cash in the AI systems. “How’s the air in Memphis near the Grok data center?” I asked a friend in that city. I cannot present his response.

What’s that cash burn deliver? One answer appears in “There Are 32 Different Ways AI Can Go Rogue, Scientists Say — From Hallucinating Answers to a Complete Misalignment with Humanity” provides some insight about the smoke from the burning money piles. The write up says as actual factual:

Scientists have suggested that when artificial intelligence (AI) goes rogue and starts to act in ways counter to its intended purpose, it exhibits behaviors that resemble psychopathologies in humans.

The wizards and magic research gnomes have identified 31 issues. I recognized one: Smart software just makes up baloney. The Fancy Dan term is hallucination. I prefer “make stuff up.”

The write up adds:

What are these dysfunctions? I tracked down the original write up at MDPI.com. The article was downloadable on September 11, 2025. After this date? Who knows?

Here’s what the issues look like when viewed from the wise gnome vantage point:

Notice there are six categories of nut ball issues. These are:

Epistemic
Cognitive
Alignment
Ontological
Tool and Interface
Memetic
Revaluation.

I am not sure what the professional definition of these terms is. I can summarize in my dinobaby lingo, however — Wrong outputs. (I used an em dash, but I did not need AI to select that punctuation mark happily rendered by Microsoft and WordPress as three hyphens. “Regular” computer software gets stuff wrong too. Hello, Excel?

Here’s the best sentence in the Live Science write up about the AI nutsy stuff:

The study also proposes “therapeutic robopsychological alignment,” a process the researchers describe as a kind of “psychological therapy” for AI.

Yep, a robot shrink for smart software. Sounds like a fundable project to me.

Stephen E Arnold, September 26, 2025

Written by Stephen E. Arnold · Filed Under AI, News, Technology

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