Is Norman, The 'Psychopath AI' One Step Too Far?

The week's news has once again been dominated by AI. The first and perhaps most worrying thing to come out of the world of AI this week was'Norman'. Now admittedly creating a psychopathic AI sounds like a terrible idea but the creation of Norman's is designed to help to raise awareness of growing issues within AI research. Norman was purposely fed data from some of the darkest corners of the web and was then asked what it could identify from inkblot drawings. The results were compared with another AI that was fed normal data.