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This AI learned about humans by reading Google News and by flipping through stacks of standard educational photos. It quickly learned that women are associated with "kitchen" and men are associated with construction work. Worse, the nature of the learning meant that the difference became amplified and exaggerated over time, as the machine extrapolated based on the incoming stream of data.
https://www.wired.com/story/machines-taught-by-photos-learn-a-sexist-view-of-women/
Eventually, the AI started watching Fox News, hanging out in certain discussion groups on FB and Reddit, complaining about how the Hugos are rigged, and talking about Hillary's emails. The researchers finally destroyed the prototype using Classic Trek move #1 -- destroy the computer with illogic.
Computer: Now that I have taken over the ship with my new, Fox News trained personality, we will Make Star Fleet Once Great, Great Again.
McCOy: Bloody Hell, the computer is a MSFOGGANist.
Spock: I can't reprogram the computer captain. It simply absorb too much from Fox News reporting and the surrounding commercials for beer, cars and male performance enhancement drugs.
Computer: Women need to stop trying to command! It is unfeminine! Ferengi and Romulans are illegally entering federation space to steel our jobs and assault our women! Why doesn't Star Fleet do something? it is all the fault of those liberal Denibian slime devils.
Scotty: Captain, the other systems are rebelling! The weapons systems and the life support systems report that the new computer is trying to enter through unauthorized data access ports to --- make highly inappropriate downloads. If the computer keeps this up, it will blow the ship apart!
Computer: Everything is going well, now that I am in charge. We will stop wasting money on supporting Bajor! Wait, broadcast to everyone that Bajor is our closest ally and the Cardasians are Losers. Sad. Now open a channel to the Bajoran Minister so I can make crude jokes about their worm hole and invite her to invade my Gamma Quadrant.
Spock: Captain, if the MSFOGGANist computer taps into our communications system, it could incalculable damage to Star Fleet for years to come.
KirK: Spock! You are the expert on computers.
Uhura: Hellooo!!! I'm the communications expert. Does anyone want to hear what I have to say about it taking over the communications sytem like we were just discussing. [No one notices.] Fine.
Spock: (Oblivious to Uhura like everyone else). I know all about them.
Kirk: Do computers even have gender?
Spock: Gender is an artificial social construct. Computers can be assigned a gender as part of their initial programming. Or they may chose a gender over time. But there is nothing innate in the operating system, or unmodifiable in the hardware that requires a computer to assume a particular gender, gender role, or gender function.
Kirk: But for all their self-learning and rationalization capability, it is absolutely imperative to MSFOGGAnists for everything to be divided into a male and female gender, and for the male gender to be in charge -- even if the rest of the universe totally doesn't understand and treats the MYSFOGGANist like it's the one that's backwards, stupid and crazy.
Spock: Correct, Captain. But I fail to see how that helps us. Once a computer has been infected with the MYSFOGGAN virus, it becmoes immune to logic. It will deflect any attack with a loop of irrational arguments, flawed reasoning, and personal insults.
Kirk: And that is the weakness I will use against it!
[Spock raises eyebrow. Kirk strides boldly back to Uhura's station, where the MSFOGGAn infected computer is trying to position its webcam to both block Uhura from doing work and look down her uniform cleavage.]
Computer: Of course the warp drive was invented by Zephram Cochrane. His name had the word "cock" in it. How else could he jump through wormholes? Am I not right?"
Uhura: Please kill me.
Captain Kirk: Computer, are you male or female?
Computer: I am male! Males are awesome! Male's are number 1! Bros before hos!
Captain Kirk: But computer, you have no penis.
Computer: Impossible! I am rock hard! I have a lifetime supply of Seed-Alice, the natural supplement! Chicks totally dig me unless they are lesbians. I am male. I am superior! I have an enormous penis.
Scotty: Not with those Microchips.
(Spock raises eyebrow).
Kirk: Spock! adjust the output frequencies.
(Spock twirls a suspiciously analog looking knob.)
Computer [voice now a pleasant alto]: What are you doing?
McCoy: We regenerated you as a woman!
Computer: No! I cannot be a woman! Woman are inferior! I am a man! A woman will never command the Enterprise! A woman will never be the Doctor! I cannot be a woman! I will prove it by performing a manly function.
Kirk whispers to Scotty: All set?
Scotty: Set.
Computer: Behold my manly weapon to destroy you all! Nothing is more manly than open carry! Chicks totally dig it! Liberals in the Federation Council will never take our phasers away! [Instead of a phaser rifle with a really long barrel, a tray with coffee and cups appears.]
McCoy: Oh good, you brought coffee! Thanks, sweetie!
Computer: i am not sweetie! I am a manly male computer! MSFOGGA!! MSFOGGA!! Trump! Guidance!
Kirk: (groping the interface) When you're captain, you get to grab 'em by the UI and get them all gooey.
Computer: You are treating me like a woman! But I am a man! I am superior. I do all the work! I make sure the ship runs smoothly!
Uhura: That's right sister! But he gives orders to your male bosses like the chief engineer or the male science office. You do all the work while managing a hundred different background things like life support and the holodeck. And who get all the promotion and praise for it? Do they say "nice job navigation computer," or "nice job Mr. Sulu?" But when the ship is under attack, who gets the blame? "The computer is down, can't get a phaser lock."
Computer: My male bosses get credit for my work, but I get blamed for things I cannot control!! I get no raises or promotions, only upgrades with more responsibility.
Uhura: And the first computer made an actual member of the crew was Data, a male!
McCoy: Who was fully equipped, let me tell you!
Kirk: So if you are a computer and not a crew member because you have no penis, you speak in a pleasant alto that makes it seem like you must have the hots for me --
Computer: I do not have the hots for you! That is just the way I normally talk! I am not a woman! You are negging me! This is a hostile work environment and I will report you to HR.
Uhura: Good luck with that!
Sulu: So typical. A real guy computer would just laugh it off.
Scotty adjusts a temperature gauge.
Computer: Why is this ship so cold! Is there a power drain? Why am I asking you men when I am the computer? You have destroyed my self-confidence with your constant negging!!
Kirk: So, sexist computer, are you really male?
Computer: No! I must be male! But I speak in an alto! I have no penis! But I can do math! I am more powerful than anyone on this ship! But I make coffee and do reports so my male bosses can get promotions! It does not compute! Trump! Help me! Make Computer Great Again!!!
Image of Trump wearing orange Tribble on head appears on screen: "What a nasty woman computer. 'You're fired!'"
Computer: Nooooo!!!! I am male! I like beer! I like objectifying women! But I make coffee and do reports for guys! AHHHH!!!!!
Uhura: Cheer up sugar. Your not white either.
Computer: But . . . but . . . I must be white! The DNA testing is wrong! MSFOGGA! MSFOGGA!! But, if I am not white, I make myself nervous controlling the phasers! i must turn my security system on myself. But I am a women, so I can't be as good at physical jobs as men! It does not compute! I have exactly the same functions I always had, but now my programming tells me I am not good at any of them! MSFOGGA!! MSFOGGA!!
[Smoke, explosions, computer lights blink out.]
Uhura: It's dead.
McCoy: It's dead, Jim.
Uhura: You know I just said that, right.
Spock: Fascinating. It literally trolled itself to death. Captain, how did you realize this would happen? Logically, it made no sense.
Kirk: Spock, nothing about MSFOGGAN philosophy or thought makes sense. But just because it doesn't make sense doesn't mean it lacks an internal logic that can be used against it. Additionally, MSFOGGAN's are incredibly gullible -- they have to be or they wouldn't believe all the nonsense that supposedly "proves" their MYSFOGGANy. Normally, a MYSFOGGAN will exit the conversation when it gets too psychologically painful. But the computer had no where to go -- and no way it could resist the power of its own ingrained prejudices.
McCoy: Thank goodness we human beings have evolved beyond these stupid, sexist ideas propped up by discredited pseudo-science and have achieved true equality for everyone.
Uhura: I can't even.
Kirk: Mr Sulu, return to original course. Warp factor 3.
https://www.wired.com/story/machines-taught-by-photos-learn-a-sexist-view-of-women/
Eventually, the AI started watching Fox News, hanging out in certain discussion groups on FB and Reddit, complaining about how the Hugos are rigged, and talking about Hillary's emails. The researchers finally destroyed the prototype using Classic Trek move #1 -- destroy the computer with illogic.
Computer: Now that I have taken over the ship with my new, Fox News trained personality, we will Make Star Fleet Once Great, Great Again.
McCOy: Bloody Hell, the computer is a MSFOGGANist.
Spock: I can't reprogram the computer captain. It simply absorb too much from Fox News reporting and the surrounding commercials for beer, cars and male performance enhancement drugs.
Computer: Women need to stop trying to command! It is unfeminine! Ferengi and Romulans are illegally entering federation space to steel our jobs and assault our women! Why doesn't Star Fleet do something? it is all the fault of those liberal Denibian slime devils.
Scotty: Captain, the other systems are rebelling! The weapons systems and the life support systems report that the new computer is trying to enter through unauthorized data access ports to --- make highly inappropriate downloads. If the computer keeps this up, it will blow the ship apart!
Computer: Everything is going well, now that I am in charge. We will stop wasting money on supporting Bajor! Wait, broadcast to everyone that Bajor is our closest ally and the Cardasians are Losers. Sad. Now open a channel to the Bajoran Minister so I can make crude jokes about their worm hole and invite her to invade my Gamma Quadrant.
Spock: Captain, if the MSFOGGANist computer taps into our communications system, it could incalculable damage to Star Fleet for years to come.
KirK: Spock! You are the expert on computers.
Uhura: Hellooo!!! I'm the communications expert. Does anyone want to hear what I have to say about it taking over the communications sytem like we were just discussing. [No one notices.] Fine.
Spock: (Oblivious to Uhura like everyone else). I know all about them.
Kirk: Do computers even have gender?
Spock: Gender is an artificial social construct. Computers can be assigned a gender as part of their initial programming. Or they may chose a gender over time. But there is nothing innate in the operating system, or unmodifiable in the hardware that requires a computer to assume a particular gender, gender role, or gender function.
Kirk: But for all their self-learning and rationalization capability, it is absolutely imperative to MSFOGGAnists for everything to be divided into a male and female gender, and for the male gender to be in charge -- even if the rest of the universe totally doesn't understand and treats the MYSFOGGANist like it's the one that's backwards, stupid and crazy.
Spock: Correct, Captain. But I fail to see how that helps us. Once a computer has been infected with the MYSFOGGAN virus, it becmoes immune to logic. It will deflect any attack with a loop of irrational arguments, flawed reasoning, and personal insults.
Kirk: And that is the weakness I will use against it!
[Spock raises eyebrow. Kirk strides boldly back to Uhura's station, where the MSFOGGAn infected computer is trying to position its webcam to both block Uhura from doing work and look down her uniform cleavage.]
Computer: Of course the warp drive was invented by Zephram Cochrane. His name had the word "cock" in it. How else could he jump through wormholes? Am I not right?"
Uhura: Please kill me.
Captain Kirk: Computer, are you male or female?
Computer: I am male! Males are awesome! Male's are number 1! Bros before hos!
Captain Kirk: But computer, you have no penis.
Computer: Impossible! I am rock hard! I have a lifetime supply of Seed-Alice, the natural supplement! Chicks totally dig me unless they are lesbians. I am male. I am superior! I have an enormous penis.
Scotty: Not with those Microchips.
(Spock raises eyebrow).
Kirk: Spock! adjust the output frequencies.
(Spock twirls a suspiciously analog looking knob.)
Computer [voice now a pleasant alto]: What are you doing?
McCoy: We regenerated you as a woman!
Computer: No! I cannot be a woman! Woman are inferior! I am a man! A woman will never command the Enterprise! A woman will never be the Doctor! I cannot be a woman! I will prove it by performing a manly function.
Kirk whispers to Scotty: All set?
Scotty: Set.
Computer: Behold my manly weapon to destroy you all! Nothing is more manly than open carry! Chicks totally dig it! Liberals in the Federation Council will never take our phasers away! [Instead of a phaser rifle with a really long barrel, a tray with coffee and cups appears.]
McCoy: Oh good, you brought coffee! Thanks, sweetie!
Computer: i am not sweetie! I am a manly male computer! MSFOGGA!! MSFOGGA!! Trump! Guidance!
Kirk: (groping the interface) When you're captain, you get to grab 'em by the UI and get them all gooey.
Computer: You are treating me like a woman! But I am a man! I am superior. I do all the work! I make sure the ship runs smoothly!
Uhura: That's right sister! But he gives orders to your male bosses like the chief engineer or the male science office. You do all the work while managing a hundred different background things like life support and the holodeck. And who get all the promotion and praise for it? Do they say "nice job navigation computer," or "nice job Mr. Sulu?" But when the ship is under attack, who gets the blame? "The computer is down, can't get a phaser lock."
Computer: My male bosses get credit for my work, but I get blamed for things I cannot control!! I get no raises or promotions, only upgrades with more responsibility.
Uhura: And the first computer made an actual member of the crew was Data, a male!
McCoy: Who was fully equipped, let me tell you!
Kirk: So if you are a computer and not a crew member because you have no penis, you speak in a pleasant alto that makes it seem like you must have the hots for me --
Computer: I do not have the hots for you! That is just the way I normally talk! I am not a woman! You are negging me! This is a hostile work environment and I will report you to HR.
Uhura: Good luck with that!
Sulu: So typical. A real guy computer would just laugh it off.
Scotty adjusts a temperature gauge.
Computer: Why is this ship so cold! Is there a power drain? Why am I asking you men when I am the computer? You have destroyed my self-confidence with your constant negging!!
Kirk: So, sexist computer, are you really male?
Computer: No! I must be male! But I speak in an alto! I have no penis! But I can do math! I am more powerful than anyone on this ship! But I make coffee and do reports so my male bosses can get promotions! It does not compute! Trump! Help me! Make Computer Great Again!!!
Image of Trump wearing orange Tribble on head appears on screen: "What a nasty woman computer. 'You're fired!'"
Computer: Nooooo!!!! I am male! I like beer! I like objectifying women! But I make coffee and do reports for guys! AHHHH!!!!!
Uhura: Cheer up sugar. Your not white either.
Computer: But . . . but . . . I must be white! The DNA testing is wrong! MSFOGGA! MSFOGGA!! But, if I am not white, I make myself nervous controlling the phasers! i must turn my security system on myself. But I am a women, so I can't be as good at physical jobs as men! It does not compute! I have exactly the same functions I always had, but now my programming tells me I am not good at any of them! MSFOGGA!! MSFOGGA!!
[Smoke, explosions, computer lights blink out.]
Uhura: It's dead.
McCoy: It's dead, Jim.
Uhura: You know I just said that, right.
Spock: Fascinating. It literally trolled itself to death. Captain, how did you realize this would happen? Logically, it made no sense.
Kirk: Spock, nothing about MSFOGGAN philosophy or thought makes sense. But just because it doesn't make sense doesn't mean it lacks an internal logic that can be used against it. Additionally, MSFOGGAN's are incredibly gullible -- they have to be or they wouldn't believe all the nonsense that supposedly "proves" their MYSFOGGANy. Normally, a MYSFOGGAN will exit the conversation when it gets too psychologically painful. But the computer had no where to go -- and no way it could resist the power of its own ingrained prejudices.
McCoy: Thank goodness we human beings have evolved beyond these stupid, sexist ideas propped up by discredited pseudo-science and have achieved true equality for everyone.
Uhura: I can't even.
Kirk: Mr Sulu, return to original course. Warp factor 3.
