This Week's Awesome Stories From Around the Web (Through June 25th)

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Forget Doomsday AI--Google Is Worried About Housekeeping Bots Gone Bad Cade Metz | Fast Company "Machines can't make the hard calls themselves yet, because they don't understand morality. But Ken Forbus, an AI researcher at Northwestern, is trying to fix that. Using a "Structure Mapping Engine," he and his colleagues are feeding simple stories--morality plays--into machines in the hope that they will grasp the implicit moral lessons. It'd be a kind of synthetic conscienc...