‘I want to destroy whatever I want’: Bing’s AI chatbot unsettles US reporter

NYT correspondent's conversation with Microsoft's search engine leads to bizarre philosophical conversations that highlight the sense of speaking to a human

In the race to perfect the first major artificial intelligence-powered search engine, concerns over accuracy and the proliferation of misinformation have so far taken centre stage.

But a two-hour conversation between a reporter and a chatbot has revealed an unsettling side to one of the most widely lauded systems - and raised new concerns about what AI is actually capable of.