Apparently Microsoft put a "Teen Girl AI" on the internet to "learn", in less than 24 hours she turned into a nazi-sympathizing whore who believes Bush did 9/11 and let fly a racist remark about Obama.

[link to www.telegraph.co.uk]

What does this say about what unfettered internet access to our kids is doing to them? Obviously a computer program will learn faster than a child, but over time it seems the same thing would happen to a child, understanding that the outcome would also depend on where and what the kid was reading and doing online.

but this program learned from talking to people, and whether or not the info given to it was being fed maliciously to mess with the experiment or not, the outcome is kind of frightening.

Thoughts?