When Artificial Intelligence goes psycho

It's Norman: also known as the first psychopathic Artificial Intelligence, just unveiled by U.S. researchers. The goal is to explain in layman's terms how algorithms are made, and to make people aware of AI's potential dangers. Norman "represents a case study on the dangers of Artificial Intelligence gone wrong when biased data is used in machine learning algorithms," according to the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Pinar Yanardag, Manuel Cebrian and Iyad Rahwan, part of an MIT team, added: "There is a central idea in machine learning: the data you use to teach a machine learning algorithm can significantly influence its behaviour." "So when we talk about AI algorithms being biased or unfair, the culprit is often not the algorithm itself, but the biased data that was fed to it," they said via email.