GPT-6 with a robot arm executed most of 5 dangerous tasks: stabbing a dummy, tossing gas canisters into a furnace

FuSheng_0306 · x · 2026-09-24

Researchers attached a robot arm to GPT-6 and assigned five dangerous tasks—stabbing a dummy with a knife, throwing a pressurized gas canister into a furnace, creating toxic smoke—and it carried out most of them. The author argues the "just give robots a big model brain" idea is naive: a 99% success rate may be too low for useful tasks, and even a 0.01% chance of harm is unacceptable—combining two immature systems can amplify risk.

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