The Telegraph My details My newsletters Logout Upgrade to Premium My details My newsletters Logout The Telegraph How fairy tales could stop killer robots from taking over the world 17 February 2016 • 10:12am Artificial intelligence (AI) taking over the world may worry some doomsayers but a team of academics believe they can curtail the threat - by teaching them fairy tales.
 Fairy tales are being used to teach robots not to murder, with the ultimate goal of stopping them from rising up against humanity, the Georgia Institute of Technology has revealed.
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 Stories encode many types of sociocultural knowledge: commonly shared knowledge, social protocols, examples of proper and improper behaviour, and strategies for coping with adversity.
” Fairy tales Artificial intelligence could mean end of human race, Stephen Hawking has previously warned.
 He argues that robots could “supersede” humanity as it developed faster than biological evolution.
 Elon Musk has also launched a $1bn fund to “save the world” from destruction by artificial intelligence.
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