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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by IanCal on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @07:29AM (#46958835)
What you have quoted says a third of people who thought it was real didn’t disobey the experimenter when they thought they were delivering dangerous and lethal electric shocks to a human. Is that correct?
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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by cwizou on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:00AM (#46960560)
Maybe there was an edit but it's the opposite, 66% disobeyed.
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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by IanCal on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @10:28AM (#46961022)
Right, so a third didn’t disobey.
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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by cyanydeez on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:27PM (#46965461)
A third of a half who were believers.

So of the entire populace of Milligram participants, 16.5% believed and obeyed.

That's a much, much smaller claim than the popular belief of what Milligram presented.

However, it's still possible that you only need ~16.5% to believe & obey authority for things like the Nazi death camps to occur.

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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by IanCal on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @02:58PM (#46965934)
We immediately only need to consider the half that believed the situation was real, if we are concerned with what people do in believably real situations.

Even if we take the 16% though, that's one in six people willing to deliver very obvious direct harm and/or kill another human from exceptionally mild coercion with zero personal benefit attached other than the benefit of not having to say "no". That is a lot.

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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by cyanydeez on Tuesday February 10, 2026 @04:54PM (#46967465)
No, no you don't; The authority includes that of the scientist.
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Re:Frontier AI agents violate ethical constraints 30–50% of ... by IanCal on Wednesday February 11, 2026 @02:05AM (#46971817)
I’m not sure what you’re trying to say here I’ve said nothing about authority.
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