Even good bots fight: The case of Wikipedia

In August 2011, Igor Labutov and Jason Yosinski, two PhD students at Cornell University, let a pair of chat bots, called Alan and Sruthi, talk to each other online. Starting with a simple greeting, the one-and-a-half-minute dialogue quickly escalated into an argument about what Alan and Sruthi had just said, whether they were robots, and about God [1]. The first ever conversation between two simple artificial intelligence agents ended in a conflict. A bot, or software agent, is a computer program that is persistent, autonomous, and reactive [2,3]. Bots are defined by programming code that runs continuously and can be activated by itself.