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Nine years later, the company created Tay, an A.I. chatbot designed to mimic the inflections and preoccupations of a teen-age girl. The chatbot was set up to interact with Twitter users, and almost immediately Tay began posting racist, sexist, and homophobic content, including the statement “Hitler was right.”

The Inside Story of Microsoft’s Partnership with OpenAI | The New Yorker

Charles Duhigg

Hygiene turned from being a virtue into a professionally organized ritual at the altar of a science.

Tools for Conviviality

Ivan Illich

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Society Needs a Doctor’s Prescription for Nature

Oliver Milman

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