The Public Access Weekly: Weird science

This week has been AI week here at Engadget, which means we've been examining the variety of ways that artificial intelligence is changing our technological landscape and our society as a whole -- from meeting the bots that play Doom to looking at how AI could change the future of combat, policing and our roles in the workplace to asking why digital assistants often default to female voices and personalities, we've been all-AI, all week. It's been pretty fun, actually. Over in the community section, a quick heads up to our commenters: We've rolled out a "Censor" feature in comment threads which allows us to remove a comment that violates our community guidelines without removing the replies and responses to that comment. So far we've only had to use this feature a handful of times -- largely due to name-calling or cursing -- but this at least gives us the ability to keep a conversation even if the person who started it was a bad actor. Also, if you're registering to be a Public Access member (which you can do here, hint, hint), please be aware that you must answer the specific registrations questions that are asked and please do not answer with joke replies.