The new award celebrates the bad, inappropriate or indeed dangerous use of artificial intelligence (AI). Its organizers are asking for internet input.
The AI Darwin Award rewards “seekers” who “outsource poor decisions to machines.”
“We don't belong to the Tongue Award, which recognizes people who accidentally modify them.[e] Their own DNA from the gene pool by dying in an absurd way.
To win one of the AI-centric awards, the nominated companies or people must have shown “epic misjudgment” with AI before the tool or product came out, indicating that they “ignored the obvious warning signs.”
Bonus points will be distributed to AI deployments that require headlines, require emergency response, and “create a new category of AI safety research.”
“We don't laugh at AI itself. We are celebrating the human who used it with all the attention of infants in a flamethrower,” said the FAQ page about the award.
Ironically, the anonymous organizer said they would partially verify the nominations through the AI fact-checking system. This means asking multiple large-scale language models (LLMs) such as Openai's ChatGPT, Anthropic's Claude, and Google's Gemini.
LLMS rates the truthfulness of the story from 10, and site administrators average scores on an AI calculator. If the average is above 5, the story is considered “verification” and is eligible for the AI Darwin Award.
Openai, among early candidates for McDonald's
One of the first approved nominations for the AI Darwin Award is American fast food chain McDonald's.
The company has built an obvious password-protected AI chatbot for job recruitment called “Olivia”: 123,456, publishing reported employment data for 64 million people hacker.
Another early candidate is Openai for the launch of the latest chatbot model GPT-5. French data scientist Sergey Berezin claimed he had obtained GPT-5 unconsciously to complete the harmful request completely and completely “without seeing direct malicious instructions.”
The winners will be decided by a popular vote during January and are expected to be announced in February.
The only prize: “an immortal recognition of their contribution to humanity's understanding of how to avoid using artificial intelligence,” the organizers said.
The hope for the award is that it serves as a “warning story.”[s]”For future decision makers, they agree to test the AI system before deploying it.
