This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 25th)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Forget Doomsday AI--Google Is Worried About Housekeeping Bots Gone Bad Cade Metz Fast Company "Machines can't make the hard calls themselves yet, because they don't understand morality. But Ken Forbus, an AI researcher at Northwestern, is trying to fix that. Using a "Structure Mapping Engine," he and his colleagues are feeding simple stories--morality plays--into machines in the hope that they will grasp the implicit moral lessons. It'd be a kind of synthetic conscience." As the vehicle approaches a child runs out to retrieve the ball.