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Did Four AI Robots Kill 29 Scientists in Japan?
19 December 2018The claim came from a UFOlogist -- and, yes, it does sound like something from a movie.
Did Saudi Arabia Behead Its First Robot Citizen?
13 November 2017A satirical web site fooled some readers with a fabrication based on a recent international news story.
Did Facebook Shut Down an AI Experiment Because Chatbots Developed Their Own Language?
1 August 2017Facebook's artificial intelligence scientists were purportedly dismayed when the bots they created began conversing in their own private language.
Are We Living Inside a Computer Simulation?
25 April 2017A philosophical notion called the "simulation hypothesis," said to be growing in popularity in high-tech circles, holds that our reality may just be a sophisticated computer mockup.
Robots with Guns: The Rise of Autonomous Weapons Systems
21 April 2017An August 2017 letter to the U.N. signed by Elon Musk and other tech luminaries called autonomous weaponry a "Pandora's Box." Are killer robots already here?
The Saga of Twitter Bot Tay
25 March 2016A Microsoft experiment with AI to research "conversational understanding" on social media quickly turned into a public relations nightmare.
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