Mark W.rites

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Teaching Ethics to Artificial Intelligence

Screenshot of a Twitter profile for the Tay bot.

Twitter has admitted that as many as 23 million (8.5 percent) of its user accounts are autonomous Twitter bots. Many are there to increase productivity, conduct research, or even have some fun. Yet many have been created with harmful intentions. In both cases, the bots have been known to behave with questionable ethics – maybe because they’re merely minor specimens of artificial intelligence (AI).

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