Intelligent humans in Silicon Valley are keeping a wary eye on artificial intelligence

Worried the robot overlords are coming for your job? Some of the best minds at the top tech companies are working on the issue. Five tech titans -- Alphabet, Facebook, Amazon, IBM and Microsoft -- are forming a group to create a standard of ethics concerning artificial intelligence (AI), according to the New York Times. Researchers from each company have been meeting to discuss issues surrounding AI, everything from jobs to transportation and to warfare. The group doesn't yet have a name or a specific mission, but it is intent on guiding AI research toward benefitting humans, according to four sources involved with the partnership who spoke with the Times on the condition of anonymity.