Editorial: Even robots need ethics training

The fear that robots are taking over the world might not be that far-fetched. While artificial intelligence is praised for its responsiveness to expansive amounts of information, AI seems to be absorbing biases, too. An experiment published in June demonstrated that robots trained with artificial intelligence exhibited racism and sexism in their decision-making. While sorting through billion of images, robots in this experiment routinely categorized Black men as "criminals." Similarly, the label "homemaker" was given to women more regularly than it was given to men.