Worried about amoral robots? Try reading them a story.

Why don't we trust robots? After decades, engineers and scientists have tinkered and programmed humanoid robots to be eerily like us. But emotions and ethics remain just beyond their reach, the basis of our fears that, when push comes to shove, artificial intelligence won't have our best interests at heart. But storybooks might fix that, a Georgia Institute of Technology team says. "There is no user manual for being human," Dr. Mark O. Riedl and Dr. Brent Harrison, computer scientists at Georgia Tech, emphasize in their latest paper.