Last month, Facebook parent Meta unveiled an artificial intelligence chatbot said to be its most advanced yet. BlenderBot 3, as the AI is known, is able to search the internet to talk to people about almost anything, and it has abilities related to personality, empathy, knowledge and long-term memory. BlenderBot 3 is also good at peddling anti-Semitic conspiracy theories, claiming that former US President Donald Trump won the 2020 election, and calling Meta Chairman and Facebook co-founder Mark Zuckerberg "creepy". It's not the first time an AI has gone rogue. In 2016, Microsoft's Tay AI took less than 24 hours to morph into a rightwing bigot on Twitter, posting racist and misogynistic tweets and praising Adolf Hitler.

The post-battle collection of military robots had identified that 5 of the autonomous-firing AI robots had logged incapacities for continued battle. Diagnostics of their physical attributes revealed no faults, however the robots expressed inability to participate in combat. Robot A complained of'lack of energy' despite normal battery power. In addition there was a description of self-criticism, sadness and a consideration for auto-execution. Robot B displayed recurrent avoidance of any combat-like situation and had become to demonstrate obsessive–compulsive symptoms, particularly in controlling his immediate work-environment variables such as temperature and humidity despite being built as an all-environment combatant.