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.