Remember Jason Dalton? If not, he's the Uber driver that went on a shooting spree.

charged with killing six strangers between picking up rides for Uber pleaded guilty to murder on Monday in Michigan... After Dalton’s arrest, police quoted him as saying a “devil figure” on Uber’s app was controlling him on the day of the shootings.

After Dalton’s arrest, police quoted him as saying a “devil figure” on Uber’s app was controlling him on the day of the shootings. https://nypost.com/2019/01/07/uber-driver-admits-to-murdering-six-strangers-between-fares/

Mellen said Dalton began driving erratically after receiving a phone call. https://people.com/crime/kalamazoo-shooting-alleged-uber-killer-jason-daltons-passengers-speak-out/

This crime took place in 2016. In 2017, Uber admitted they are using tech to control their drivers. You know, to get them motivated.

Uber helps solve this fundamental problem by using psychological inducements and other techniques unearthed by social science to influence when, where and how long drivers work. It’s a quest for a perfectly efficient system: a balance between rider demand and driver supply at the lowest cost to passengers and the company.

Employing hundreds of social scientists and data scientists, Uber has experimented with video game techniques, graphics and noncash rewards of little value that can prod drivers into working longer and harder — and sometimes at hours and locations that are less lucrative for them. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/02/technology/uber-drivers-psychological-tricks.html

Just recently, Amazon's Alexa told a woman to kill her foster parents. https://www.newsweek.com/amazon-alexa-kill-foster-parents-creepy-laughter-sex-acts-1269408

What is going on here? Dalton takes a call and goes nuts, Uber admits to psychologically manipulating drivers, and now we have AI telling people to murder.

Things are getting stranger by the day.