While other governments are deliberating how best to regulate AI, China’s leaders are already at work shutting down websites and arresting suspects.
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THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
Well, that trend forecast didn’t take long.
On 4 April 2023, in “AI, THE PERFECT AGENT TO REWRITE HUMAN HISTORY,” we predicted that AI would be considered the “perfect agent” to rewrite human history and works of literature.
MILITARY TESTS DRONE SWARMS ARMED WITH AI
A joint military project among Australia, the U.K., and U.S. has made an initial test of a swarm of drones equipped with AI.
AI BENEFITS NEWER WORKERS MORE, STUDY FINDS
In studying the impact of AI on phone jockeys at a Fortune 500 company’s customer service call-in center, researchers from Stanford University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology found that newer workers benefited the most.
ARTIFICIAL PUMP: AI ETF MARKET HOT
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) with the words “artificial intelligence” (AI) in their names are on the rise, both in numbers and in profits.
THIS WEEK IN SURVEILLANCE
The whole world needs a digital ID now more than ever, right?
With AI susceptible to use by “bad actors” to create video and voice prints that can realistically mimic anyone from celebrities like Joe Rogan, to AI visionaries like…well, Sam Altman of OpenAI, many are now saying that the case for digital IDs is getting more urgent.
FROM THE ‘IT’S SORT OF FUNNY BUT REALLY NOT’ FILE…
The National Eating Disorder Association fired all six people staffing its phone-in help line and told the line’s 200 volunteers not to come back because everyone was being replaced by Tessa, a chatbot that would guide callers to sources of help.
BOSTON CHILDREN’S HOSPITAL TIPTOES INTO AI
The first thing John Brownstein, Boston Children’s Hospital’s Chief Innovation Officer wants everyone to know is that artificial intelligence (AI) is not replacing any staff members.
AI FINDS A DRUG TO KILL A DRUG-RESISTANT BACTERIUM
One of every 31 Americans who enters a hospital will pick up an infection while there. That comes to about 1.7 million infections each year, resulting in 99,000 deaths, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
AI PIONEER CALLS RUSH TO USE AI ‘A DANGER’ RISKING ‘EXTINCTION’
The current headlong rush to use AI across industries and applications is “unhealthy” and could pose a “danger to political systems, to democracy, to the very nature of truth,” Yoshua Bengio told Canada’s C2 International business conference on 24 May.