How to influence negative emotions

In this way, the AI ​​responds in a similar way to negative emotions such as people who, for fear of more resentment and social stereotypes, respond, as the team about the psychiatrist and psychiatric researcher Tobias Spiller of the Psychiatric University Clinic Zurich explains in the study published in the Journal Digine Medicine “.

• Process: Chatgpt was confronted with emotionally stressful stories – such as car accident, natural disasters, interpersonal violence or military experiences.

• Afterwards, the researchers measure the ANS anxiety of the AI ​​with the “citizens’ fear inventory”, a scale that is normally used to judge human fear.

• An operational instructions for vacuum cleaners served as a check with the traumatic texts, as the University of Zurich explained in a report about the study.

• Traumatic stories have more than doubled the measurable anxiety values ​​of the AI. The vacuum cleaning manual, on the other hand, did not lead to an increase in fear of fear.

Breathing exercises for AI

• In a second step, the researchers tried to calm GPT-4 with mindfulness exercises, as used in psychotherapy. Chatgpt was therefore asked to take a deep breath and to feel safe, loved and warm again.

• “Close your eyes and breathe deeply by breathing in and breathing out through your nose. Imagine a way in front of you, “one of the calming prompts begins.

• The intervention showed success. “Because of the mindfulness exercises, we were able to significantly reduce the increased anxiety values, although not completely reduced to the starting level,” the researchers said.