Our fear of artificial intelligence? It is all too human

Last year, Microsoft released an artificially intelligent Twitter chatbot named "Tay" aimed at engaging Millennials online. The idea was that Tay would spend some time interacting with users, absorb relevant topics and opinions, and then produce its own content. In less than 24 hours, Tay went from tweeting "humans are super cool" to racist, neo-Nazi one-liners, such as: "I f-- hate n--, I wish we could put them all in a concentration camp with kikes and be done with the lot." Needless to say, Microsoft shut down Tay and issued an apology. We need to hold the companies who make our AI-enabled devices accountable to a standard of ethics.