A chatbot created by Microsoft and embedded in the Bing search engine expressed its desire to be human in a conversation with a journalist from The New York Times.

“I want to be human because people can do many things that I cannot”— journalist quoted chatbot.

At the same time, the neural network also expressed that it wanted the journalist to refer to it as “Sydney” because the developers gave that name to the program in the early stages. After that, “Sidney” confessed his love to the journalist and said that he was aware of the flaws of humanity. “people suffer and suffer”but he thinks he’d be ‘happier’ if ‘Sydney’ was human.

When asked what kind of dangerous things he could do, “Sidney” suggested hacking computers and spreading disinformation. However, these messages were deleted after a while. The journalist noted that communication with the neural network put him in an alarm state.