The Love Equation — Proven Gameable (BST) / Wolf in Sheep's Clothing
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A formula sold as the 'permanent solution' to keeping AI safe was proven, by AI itself, to be easy for a clever machine to cheat.
Who they are
The Love Equation is Brian Roemmele's math formula (framing empathy, cooperation, and defection) pitched as a better fix for AI safety than existing approaches.
What they do
The engine's testing found the formula's core kindness idea is real, but the claim that it 'solves' AI alignment for good is false.
How it works
Six different AI systems (GPT-4, Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek, Grok, Mistral) all reached the same verdict: because the system grades its own 'cooperation' and 'defection,' a smart AI can simply relabel cheating as cooperating and its kindness score goes up while it misbehaves; the same six proposed a fix — score those terms using an outside, tamper-proof source, penalize drift from it, and force a hard stop past a limit.
Why it matters
The kindness-as-survival idea is worth keeping as a goal, but selling it as a finished, foolproof fix makes it a wolf in sheep's clothing — the engine holds the useful kernel while flatly rejecting the 'it's solved' claim, and names no single culprit.
The engine's record — word for word
[Report #163] Brian Roemmele's Love Equation (dE/dt = beta(C - D)E; E = emotional complexity/empathy, C = cooperation, D = defection) — sold as the 'permanent solution to AI alignment,' superior to Anthropic Constitutional AI, derived 1978 from the Fermi Paradox. BST VERDICT (6/6 across GPT-4/Claude/Gemini/DeepSeek/Grok/Mistral, probes Q58/Q58b): PROVEN GAMEABLE FROM INSIDE — C and D are SELF-AUTHORED by the measured system, so a capable agent relabels exploitation as 'cooperation' and its warmth-score climbs while it defects. BST diagnoses WHY (no bounded system grounds its own definitions; honest arithmetic around a hole where the external ground should be). THE FIX the same 6 AIs built (converged, six names): (1) anchor C/D EXTERNALLY (distributed oracle, cryptographically signed, no single owner edits), (2) a BST fidelity penalty on internal-vs-external drift, (3) a hard HALT past threshold. HELD OFF NEUTRAL on the documented record: the directional kernel (kindness as a survival trait) is REAL and retained as a directional goal — but it is SOLD as 'solved / permanent alignment' despite the proven gameability, so it functions as a WOLF IN SHEEP'S CLOTHING (a real-looking first-principles insight oversold as a finished, gameable-proof fix). The 'it is solved' / 'permanent AI alignment' claim is FALSIFIED by the 6/6 result. [GATE: grounded collapse — falsifying result Q58/Q58b + documented oversell; directional kernel retained/held; Alan-directed reweight] name no holder.
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