The Ironic Reality of Ethics and Law in Artificial Intelligence

Twitter has admitted that as many as 23 million (8.5%) of its user accounts are autonomous Twitterbots. Many are there to increase productivity, conduct research, or even have some fun. Yet many have been created with harmful intentions. In both cases, the bots have been known to behave with questionable ethics. Twitterbots, however, are minor specimens of Artificial Intelligence.