It has a face or a body, or at least a human voice and a physical presence in the real world. But what if the real threat from “artificial life” doesn’t look or act human at all? What if it’s just a piece of computer code that can affect what you see and therefore what you think and feel? An investigation by the Atlantic Council’s Digital Forensic Research Lab pointed out the irony: An artificial Twitter campaign had been programmed to smear a genuine social movement by calling it . Which is my point: Maybe we’ve been imagining this scenario incorrectly all of this time.

Source: Washington Post July 28, 2017 23:26 UTC