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Wikipedia’s Software Bots Locked In Perpetual Conflict; Skynet From ‘Terminator’ May Be Farfetched, AI Researchers Are Still Warned

Computer scientists from the Oxford Internet Institute and the Alan Turing Institute have studied the activities of Wikipedia's software bots by examining their editing histories. The study also looked into 13 different editions of Wikipedia in different languages. The scientists recorded every time bots undo the work of other bots. The scientists did not expect to find much and were taken by surprise by their discoveries.