Several venture capital firms are collaborating with the U.S. commerce department to craft “responsible AI” guidelines for themselves and the businesses they fund, according to Axios.
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AI LIKELY TO HARM MORE PEOPLE THAN IT HELPS, MIT ECONOMIST WARNS
Economists tend to hold an optimistic view of technological change: yes, the people who make wagon wheels and kerosene lamps are thrown out of work, but they—and a whole lot more people—find jobs in the new technological realm, conventional economic wisdom says.
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COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE LEARNING SKILLS ALREADY BECOMING OBSOLETE, CEO WARNS
College students are learning skills in business and technology that AI is likely to render obsolete by the time they graduate, Chris Hyams, CEO of jobs website Indeed, warned in a Fortune essay.
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AI IDENTIFIES ILLNESS-CAUSING GENE MUTATIONS
One of the hardest and most tedious tasks in genetic science is figuring out which of the countless mutations in human genes cause which illnesses.
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HALF OF CEOs SAY AI COULD REPLACE THEM
Forty-nine percent of CEOs say artificial intelligence could carry out “most” or even “all” of their functions, a poll by education website edX found. The site queried 800 C-suite workers, including CEOs, and 800 workers below the executive level.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Joining sensory systems with AI is the cutting edge of where more sophisticated technology is heading.
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U.K. WILL PLACE THIRD IN GLOBAL AI SWEEPSTAKES, STUDY SAYS
Britain’s AI sector will grow from £1.36 trillion (about $1.7 trillion) to £2.4 trillion ($3 trillion) by 2027, making it the world’s third-largest AI economy behind the U.S. and China, according to an analysis by the information clearinghouse Global AI Ecosystem.
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AHEAD OF AI SAFETY SUMMIT, U.K. REGULATORS LIST GUIDING PRINCIPLES FOR AI DEVELOPMENT
“The speed at which AI is becoming part of everyday life for people and businesses is dramatic,” Sarah Cardell, CEO of the CMA, said in a statement listing the principles.
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NEW INTEL CHIP BRINGS AI TO LAPTOP COMPUTERS
In December, chip-making giant Intel will unveil its new “Meteor Lake” chip able to run a generative AI program on a notebook computer instead of forcing users to connect to data centers to muster enough computing power for the task, the company announced last week at a Silicon Valley developers conference.
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RELAX! LAWS TO GOVERN AI ARE ALREADY IN PLACE, SECURITY EXPERT SAYS
AI insiders from OpenAI CEO Sam Altman to Bill Gates are calling on the U.S. Congress to set rules in place to govern artificial intelligence and Congress is listening.