This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through April 30)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Inside OpenAI, Elon Musk's Wild Plan to Set Artificial Intelligence Free Cade Metz WIRED "In the rarefied world of AI research, the brightest minds aren't driven by--or at least not only by--the next product cycle or profit margin. They want to make AI better, and making AI better doesn't happen when you keep your latest findings to yourself." ROBOTICS: When a Robot Kills, Is It Murder or Product Liability? Ryan Calo Slate "There is a fundamental similarity between the question of whether a robot can be responsible and the question of whether a robot should enjoy rights...We wouldn't say of a driverless car that it possesses a responsibility to keep its passengers safe, only that it is designed to do so. But somehow, we feel comfortable saying that a driverless car is responsible for an accident."