This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through May 28th)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: It's Too Late--We've Already Taught AI to Be Racist and Sexist Jordan Pearson Motherboard " 'To some extent, you can think about the AI as a human child,' Clune said. 'You don't want a child to hang out with racist or discriminatory people, because it will parrot those sentences and predispositions.' It's inevitable that AI, just like a real human, will eventually be exposed to some very bad ideas, intentionally or not. It needs to be taught how to ignore them." LONGEVITY: The Immortality Hype Adam Piore Nautilus "In the months and years ahead, the scientific progress--and hype--around aging are likely to grow...The biggest reason for optimism, however, may well be the relentless march of aging itself...'Baby boomers are about to create a silver tsunami in cancer that we are unprepared for. So you bet that those of us who are boomers are going to be pushing the pipeline, putting money in aging research, because we want it all figured out before we really fall into it.' CYBERNETICS: What a Self-Made Cyborg Taught Me About Body Hacking Selena Larson The Daily Dot " 'You have to confront your relationship with technology when you implant something with yourself, but before that you've probably been on the computer most of the day, been on your phone the rest of the day, conducted most of your relationships through the internet,' Moe said.