The Most Dangerous Thing About AI Is That It Has to Learn From Us

We all know the half-joke about the AI apocalypse. The robots learn to think, and in their cold ones-and-zeros logic, they decide that humans--horrific pests we are--need to be exterminated. It's the subject of countless sci-fi stories and blog posts about robots, but maybe the real danger isn't that AI comes to such a conclusion on its own, but that it gets that idea from us. Yesterday Microsoft launched a fun little AI Twitter chatbot that was admittedly sort of gimmicky from the start. "A.I fam from the internet that's got zero chill," its Twitter bio reads.