Here's How We Prevent The Next Racist Chatbot

The bot, which had no consciousness, obviously learned those words from some data that she was trained on. Tay did reportedly have a "repeat after me" function, but some of the most racy tweets were generated inside Tay's transitive mind. However, Tay is not the last chatbot that will be exposed to the internet at large. For artificial intelligence to be fully realized, it needs to learn constraint and social boundaries much the same way humans do. Mark Riedl, an artificial intelligence researcher at Georgia Tech, thinks that stories hold the answer. "When humans write stories, they often exemplify the best about their culture," Riedl told Popular Science.