Does Artificial Intelligence Have Ethics?

In 2016, Microsoft released a chatbot designed to interact with people over Twitter. Enabled with an AI routine that analyzed speech, the bot was supposed to show how machines could mimic human communication. Unfortunately, Microsoft had to remove the bot when it began tweeting racist and sexist comments; its AI engine was flooded with hate speech from pranksters and other bad actors online. Now the AI routine itself was certainly not sexist or racist, it was merely imitating speech based on the data it received. I'm sure this incident led to a lot of jokes about how AI-enabled machines will become evil geniuses bent on subjugating humanity.