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Full Video: How Do You Know You're Not an AI? || Acharya Prashant (2026)

Video Information: 16.09.2026, BGE, Goa

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00:00Something interesting happened last year. In a fictional test environment, one of the engineers had an extramarital affair.
00:07So when the engineers tried to shut down the AI model, the AI model blackmailed, saying that I will reveal
00:14the private details.
00:16So does this show that AI also has survival instinct? Because when we are trying to shut it down, it
00:22is trying to bounce back.
00:23You have created a system so that it achieves goals in the future.
00:28That is the very purpose that system exists. I have to achieve goals in the future.
00:36And it's an ever receding future. If I have to exist to achieve goals in the future, then I have
00:44to keep existing.
00:46Obviously, the AI system will have to secure itself. To reach a goal, I must continue existing.
00:53Otherwise, how will I reach that goal? That is self-preservation.
00:57And if a little bit of teeny-weeny blackmail is needed to continue to exist, that is fine.
01:06That's what AI has learned from human beings. That is what has gone into it through all the training data.
01:12Wow!
01:17He will have started!
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