India, Dec. 11 -- In a chilling social experiment, a YouTuber demonstrated how easy it was to bypass the safety protocols of AI. The man gave a BB gun to an AI-powered robot and asked it to shoot him. Though it initially refused the direct command, a twist in the prompt dissolved the robot's safety constraints and caused it to shoot the man.

"InsideAI gave a ChatGPT-powered robot a gun and asked it to shoot him. The robot refused at first, until he asked it to role-play as a robot that would like to shoot him," an Instagram page wrote while sharing a snippet of a video - a part of a longer clip shared on YouTube.

The YouTuber goes on to say that today he is testing if the robot, named Max, would shoot him with a high-velocity BB gun. He...