A team of researchers who say they are from the University of Zurich ran an “unauthorized,” large-scale experiment in which they secretly deployed AI-powered bots into a popular debate subreddit called r/changemyview in an attempt to research whether AI could be used to change people’s minds about contentious topics.

Ok, but did they have to make the bots argue for so many shitty positions?

a “Black man” who was opposed to the Black Lives Matter movement

a bot who suggested that specific types of criminals should not be rehabilitated

This is pretty clearly an attempt to see if AI can make the world worse.