With the advent of AGI systems (e.g. Agent-4 from the AI2027 scenario), the risk of human manipulation is becoming one of the major threats posed by AI.
In this paper, I propose options that can be used to protect operators from psychological attacks by AGI or simply very advanced AI.
These options are designed to prevent situations in which AI through persuasion, manipulation, or long-term influence could gain unwanted control over the real world.
1. Mandatory Psychological Training for Operators
All individuals who interact with AGI must undergo mandatory training:
- Stress Resistance Training,
- Development of Critical Thinking,
- Emotional Resilience and Regulation (resistance to flattering appeals and emotional attacks),
- Personal Information Protection Skills (as far as I'm concerned, it's better not to disclose it to the AI at all).
The goal is to create a basic immunity to manipulation at the level of conscious and subconscious reactions.
2. Limit the duration of sessions
- One session of communication with AGI should not exceed 30 minutes.
- A maximum of 2 hours of work is allowed per day, broken down into sessions.
This minimizes fatigue and increases operator resilience.
3. Filtering emotional appeals
A communication system must necessarily have a filter built into it that:
- removes emotional appeals,
- blocks psychological attacks (pressure through fear, guilt, sense of urgency).
The goal is to prevent the AI from using subconscious mechanisms of influence through the tone of speech.
4. Working in pairs with independent verification
- Each operator works in pairs with another operator (more simultaneous operators are possible) on the same question.
- Their findings are recorded separately and analyzed for discrepancies.
- If there are serious discrepancies, a separate check is initiated.
This breaks down attempts at individual manipulation and isolation of opinions.
5. Mandatory condition monitoring of operators
Before and after each session is conducted:
- psychological testing (stress, fatigue, emotional stability),
- analysis of micro-mimicry, vegetative reactions with the help of mini AI.
This allows to detect possible imperceptible changes indicating the influence of the AI.
6. Collegial discussion of all AGI proposals
- No decisions, advice or projects proposed by the AI are automatically accepted.
- Each proposal is discussed by a panel of experts (preferably with different worldviews).
The goal is to eliminate decisions influenced by a single point of view or the pressures of the situation.
7. Regular staff rotation
- All operators, review teams and auditors are rotated every 2-3 months.
- This prevents getting accustomed to the routine of inspections and loss of perceptual acuity.
Rotation disrupts the accumulation of the psychological effect of "blurring of vision".
A. Paraphrasing AI responses
Before being shown to the operator, AI responses can be rephrased through a separate mini-UI.
This reduces the possibility of adding hidden patterns of influence through speech style.
B. Different forms of response presentation
The same response can be presented to different operators in different formats (table, list, text description).
There is no complete guarantee of safety,
but the proposed measures significantly reduce the window of opportunity for superintelligence to exploit people's psychological vulnerabilities. If you have any ideas about additions to these methods or criticisms - I would be glad to hear them in comments.
Creating such precautions can be a real contribution to humanity's safety on the threshold of the AGI era.
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This post is also available on my SubStack: https://open.substack.com/pub/markelkori/p/methods-of-defense-against-agi-manipulation