Artificial Intelligence Learns to Talk Back to Bigots

Social media platforms like Facebook use a combination of artificial intelligence and human moderators to scout out and eliminate hate speech. But now researchers have developed a new AI tool that wouldn't just scrub hate speech but would actually craft responses to it, like: "The language used is highly offensive. All ethnicities and social groups deserve tolerance." "And this type of intervention response can hopefully short-circuit the hate cycles that we often get in these types of forums." The idea, she says, is to fight hate speech with more speech--an approach advocated by the ACLU and the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights.