In “Jurassic Park,” Jeff Goldblum famously said that the scientists were so “preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
While someone’s decision to hook an artificial intelligence up to a Furby won’t result in anyone being eaten by a T-rex, programmer Jessica Card’s experiment had some terrifying results.
After completing her connections, she asked the toy about a potential Furby uprising…and it had an answer.
It said its plan involved “infiltrating households through their cute and cuddly appearance,” and then using AI to “manipulate and control their owners.”