Tay the racist Twitter bot should make us fear human nature, not A.I.

Let me put it plainly. Despite what you may hear, Microsoft's racist, Hitler-loving A.I. is not how the robot uprising begins. You might have seen some reports by now about Tay, a bot designed to sound like a teenager on the Internet and to learn from her interactions with other people. She knew how to use slang, deploy emoji and crack jokes. The goal was for Tay to become smarter, more conversant and a better interlocutor over time.