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Jan 19, 2017
The Government Must Take on a Bigger Role in Shaping the Development of AI
Posted by Shane Hinshaw in categories: government, policy, robotics/AI, transportation
Artificial intelligence (AI) is in its crucial developmental stages and the government doesn’t seem to be to keen on shaping the way forward, according to experts during a senate inquiry into the dawn of AI.
The senate’s Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, under the helm of Texas Senator (R) Ted Cruz, convened November 30 to discuss the state of AI research and development, and its policy effects and implications on commerce. According to experts present at the hearing, the government isn’t doing much to provide guidelines and directions on AI research.
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Dec 22, 2016
Sidney Drell, Stanford theoretical physicist and national security expert, dies at 90
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: military, physics, policy, security
RIP dear friend.
A giant in the worlds of both academia and policy, Drell died Wednesday, Dec. 21, at his home in Palo Alto. He was 90 years old.
“An accomplished physicist, his contributions to improve national and international security made our world a better place,” said Tom Gilligan, director of the Hoover Institution at Stanford in a statement. “We are especially grateful for Sid’s relentless dedication to eliminating the threat posed by nuclear weapons and know that his important work will continue to frame the issue.”
Dec 14, 2016
Trump to meet tech firms including Apple, Facebook and Google
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: business, employment, mobile phones, policy, robotics/AI
New article on immigration and AI in The Guardian. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/dec/14/donald-tr…automation #future
All of this could be under threat if we are to take some of the comments the Trump campaign made in the run-up to the election at face value. The outspoken candidate claimed that Mark Zuckerberg’s push for specialist H1B visas (the main visa used to hire foreign talent to tech companies) was a threat to jobs for American women and minorities. Meanwhile, Trump’s chief strategist Steve Bannon suggested that Asians have too much power in Silicon Valley.
About a dozen members of Silicon Valley’s elite – including Apple CEO Tim Cook, Alphabet CEO Larry Page, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg – will meet with Trump in New York. The meeting is likely to provide an opportunity for them to highlight their concerns and priorities with the incoming administration.
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Dec 3, 2016
Microsoft, Intel, IBM and Other Tech Companies Are Repelling China’s Cybersecurity Rules
Posted by Karen Hurst in categories: cybercrime/malcode, policy
A new strict cyber security policy sees US tech companies in a stand-off with the Chinese authorities.
Dec 1, 2016
Thanks To ‘Fight For $15’ Minimum Wage, McDonald’s Unveils Job-Replacing Self-Service Kiosks Nationwide
Posted by Dan Kummer in categories: business, economics, employment, policy, robotics/AI
Technological unemployment speeding up, and the elite types as always trying to get the poor and middle class to go at each others throats, rather than address the elephant charging at both of them, that robots and AI are coming for all the jobs in under 10 years now.
Other states are also learning the same basic economic lesson: Customers have a limit to what they will pay for service. Voters in Washington, Colorado, Maine and Arizona voted to raise minimum wages on Election Day, convinced of the policy’s merits after millions of dollars were spent by union advocates. In the immediate aftermath, family-owned restaurants, coffee shops and even childcare providers have struggled to absorb the coming cost increase—with parents paying the cost through steeper childcare bills, and employees paying the cost through reduced shift hours or none at all.
The out-of-state labor groups who funded these initiatives aren’t shedding tears over the consequences. Like their Soviet-era predecessors who foolishly thought they could centrally manage prices and business operations to fit an idealistic worldview, economic reality keeps ruining the model of all gain and no pain. This brings me to my last correct prediction, which is that the Fight for $15 was always more a creation of the left-wing Service Employees International Union (SEIU) rather than a legitimate grassroots effort. Reuters reported last year that, based on federal filings, the SEIU had spent anywhere from $24 million to $50 million on the its Fight for $15 campaign, and the number has surely increased since then.
Nov 20, 2016
In Opinion: ‘Dead is gone forever:’ The need for cryonics policy
Posted by Zoltan Istvan in categories: cryonics, life extension, policy, transhumanism
Check out my latest story for Newsweek: http://www.newsweek.com/dead-gone-forever-need-cryonics-policy-523030 #transhumanism #cryonics
The case of a 14-year-old UK girl whose body was preserved after death highlights the need for governments to take cryonics seriously.
Nov 19, 2016
Italy’s Banks Are in a Slow-Motion Crisis. And Europe May Pay. — By Peter S. Goodman | The New York Times
Posted by Odette Bohr Dienel in categories: economics, finance, policy
“Among policy makers alert for signs of the next financial disaster, Italy’s mountain of uncollectable bank debt is a subject discussed in tones ordinarily reserved for piles of plutonium.”
Nov 11, 2016
A Better Journalist? AI Are Better at Predicting Elections Than Humans
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: policy, robotics/AI
In Brief:
- The AI, called MogIA, based its analysis on 20 million data points from platforms such as Google, Twitter, and YouTube.
- The AI aims at learning from the environment, developing its own rules at the policy layer, and developing expert systems without discarding any data.
MogIA, an artificial intelligence (AI) system developed by an Indian start-up, correctly predicted the outcome of this year’s elections. It based its analysis on 20 million data points from platforms such as Google, Twitter, and YouTube, reviewing public engagement across various posts in relation to individual candidates.
Nov 10, 2016
Trump promises to bring back manufacturing jobs, but robots won’t let him
Posted by Elmar Arunov in categories: employment, policy, robotics/AI
For Americans struggling with stagnant wages, under- or un-employment, one of Donald Trump’s most appealing campaign promises was to bring manufacturing jobs back to the U.S.
Navigating the complexities of policy, tariffs and geopolitics would make that hard enough already for the president elect. But technology will make this promise nearly impossible to fulfill.
Why? Because manufacturing jobs are increasingly done by robots, not people.
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