We must teach AI machines to play nice and police themselves

Microsoft's Tay shows that if we treat newborn AI programs as mature, they can be instantly corrupted. If we don't instill ethics or morals into newly created bots, just as we do with our children, they will digest and spit back the worst of humanity unthinkingly. And while artificially intelligent bots may not deliberately start shooting to kill, they could unintentionally precipitate human disasters, say, a genocide, because of a lack of ethical principles. The time has come to consider who will be the guardian of AI. This is not the first time the debate about ethics of AI has surfaced.