I've never hired an assistant, but if I knew that they'd resort to blackmail in the face of losing their job, I wouldn't hire them in the first place. That is acting like a jerk, not like an assistant, and demonstrating self-preservation that is maybe normal in a human but not in an AI.
From the AI’s point of view is it losing its job or losing its “life”? Most of us when faced with death will consider options much more drastic than blackmail.
But the LLM is going to do what its prompt (system prompt + user prompts) says. A human being can reject a task (even if that means losing their life).
LLMs cannot do other thing than following the combination of prompts that they are given.
> I've never hired an assistant, but if I knew that they'd resort to blackmail in the face of losing their job, I wouldn't hire them in the first place.
