Maybot's 'little tear' interview: a masterclass in robot ethics | John Crace

The administrators had installed an empathy function, but it crashed on conflict with the PM’s default settingsThe preparations had gone on all the previous night. Installing an empathy function into the Maybot’s operating system had proved a great deal trickier than the administrators had imagined. Time and again, the update had appeared to load satisfactorily only to end with a spinning circle of doom. Finally, just minutes before the Maybot was about to begin her first broadcast i