"Cooperate or we'll kill your family".

(Just to be clear, this is a hypothetical intelligence agent saying this, not me.)

I mean, it's not exactly rocket science, who wouldn't instantly fold to that?

Someone without family?

You know the next step, right?

"Cooperate or we will find you a spouse, make you fall in love, and have a family"

ChatGPT responds by threatening to torture a simulation of the agents’ consciousness in the cloud for eternity?

(I mean, since we’re just making up wild hypotheticals)