Are You Evil? Profiling That Which Is Truly Wicked

Summary

October 27, 2008: Cognitive scientists are trying to create a computer character which is pure "Evil" to better understand the nature of Evil.

See Also

• Artificial Intelligence
• Evil Tropes

• News: Research Show Robots Forming Human-like Societies

Source

Bibliography

1. Original article

2. Peck, M. Scott. (1983;1988). People of the Lie: The hope for healing human evil. ISBN 0 7126 1857 0 : a psychiatric perspective on the question of human evil.

Game and Story Use

• The project might accidentally result in the summoning of a demonic entity taking the place of the computer character, which starts to manipulate the scientists in the project towards its own ends.
  • After a while, there might even be physical manifestations of said entities.
• In a science fiction setting, researchers might create an actual artificial intelligence for the same purpose. Which will inevitably get loose and wreak havoc.