Will Artificial Intelligence Produce Synthetic Sociopaths?

Some day soon, computers may convincingly mimic human empathy. Will this lead to ethical artificial intelligence, or synthetic sociopathy? Technologists and ethicists have started to explore the form and meaning of a Turing Test for Ethical AI. Initially called "The Imitation Game," one version of the test imagines that a human evaluator communicates in writing with a human participant and a computer designed to emulate human language and responses. In Turing's view, if the evaluator could not distinguish between the human and the computer, the computer might be said to think, or at least to possess intelligence.