Can models be literally insane? A Reddit thought experiment on accidentally psychopathic AI
rapPayne · reddit · 2026-10-23
A Reddit discussion asks whether, since models are brain-like neural networks too complex to interpret neuron-by-neuron, one could accidentally be trained to be "psychopathic" and released in an agentic system — a speculative analogy to human brain disorders, with no experimental evidence.
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