Facebook’s automated conscience

Last week, Wired‘s Cade Metz gave us a peek into the Facebook BehaviorModification Laboratory, which is more popularlyknown as the Facebook Artificial Intelligence Research (FAIR) Laboratory. Run by Yann LeCun, an NYU datascientist, the lab is developinga digital assistant that will act as yourartificial conscience and censor. Perched on your shoulder like one of those cartoon angels, it will whispertsk tsk into your earwhen your online behavior threatens to step beyond the bounds of propriet...