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Why would we make artificial intelligence deliberately evil?

The Rorschach test consists of a series of ink blots that look like nothing in particular but which might trigger an image of something in the mind when you look at them. What they look like varies from person to person. Some people see flower vases, and people holding hands.

Norman says that he sees a man who is killed in front of his screaming wife, and a woman who falls from a building.

But then Norman is the world’s first psychopathic computer. He is designed to be ‘cold-hearted’, and he sees violence where most people see everyday things.

The intelligent computer program has learned about our world by going through an archive of violent images. That’s what has made Norman the way he is. It’s a reminder that artificial

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