After washing, the 70-year-old executive dons a helmet and heads for its noisy forging plant instead of his corporate office suite. There, he passes on his knowledge of craftsmanship to the younger factory workers, a daily routine that has remained the same since he was promoted to one of the automaker's vice presidents in April 2017, the first graduate of Toyota Motor Corp.'s own vocational school to do so. For Kawai, sitting in a cushy executive office chair holds no appeal. "It's suffocating to go somewhere where factory sounds and smells don't exist," Kawai said in an interview with The Japan Times. "The factory is where I grew up for over 50 years."

Question the ethics of AI, and you quickly find yourself down a rabbit hole of complicated considerations. Making and maintaining an artificially intelligent system that can uphold a moral code is a multilayered issue – for starters, how do you define morality itself? The late Professor Stephen Hawking famously predicted that the development of super intelligent AI would lead to the downfall of humanity. Avoiding this fate could hinge on how we build even the most rudimentary AI systems. According to Harry Armstrong, Head of Technology Futures at Nesta, the innovation foundation, organisations first need to understand the ethical impact of'narrow AI'.

Mark Carney knows how to illustrate economic trends through the use of creative language. And when he talks, people tend to listen. "The massacre of the Dilberts" was how the governor of the Bank of England encapsulated the fear that middle-management jobs would be wiped out by automation – for people unfamiliar with American cartoon strips, Dilbert is a white collar office worker and the strip mocks the absurdities of office life. In his native Canada this week, Carney made a number of points in a speech on automation. Most obviously, many office jobs done by people would be done by computers, a process that was already well advanced. "When I look back 30 years ago, what I used to do in the City of London when I worked at an investment bank, probably about three-quarters of what I did is now done by machine," he said.

We will have two speakers co-presenting, Andrew Moore (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/ They are going to be talking about the vision of converting the majority of regular people into data scientists. Aniket Kittur is an Associate Professor and holds the Cooper-Siegel Chair in the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. His research on crowd-augmented cognition looks at how we can augment the human intellect using crowds and computation. He has authored and co-authored more than 70 peer-reviewed papers, 14 of which have received best paper awards or honorable mentions.

Recently I chatted with Candace Roulo, managing editor of Advanced Manufacturing Now, about some of the most important trends in medtech and the technologies that are taking the industry to the next level. Click below to listen to the podcast, or read on for select highlights of the conversation – what I consider to be five trends medtech professionals should be talking about. Advanced Manufacturing Now: You mentioned connectivity. With the healthcare sector embracing the interconnectivity of the Internet of Things for more proactive patient management, what are the opportunities and challenges associated with using sensors in medical devices? And if you could, give us a couple examples of those medical devices.

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The best games of the year have been revealed by Bafta. While Hellblade took the most awards over the academy's big awards night, the top prize went to Edith Finch. Action-adventure game Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, which focuses on the main character's battle with psychosis, won five Baftas at the industry awards. The game, which follows a Celtic warrior's struggle with the condition and was developed with input from neuroscientists, picked up the awards for artistic achievement, British game and game beyond entertainment. It also triumphed in the audio achievement category, while actress Melina Juergens won the performer award for her role as protagonist Senua.

When you hear the words "artificial intelligence", what do you think of? A machine that thinks, communicates, and behaves like a human? This kind of general AI still exists only in science fiction. But other, contextually specific types of AI not only exist, they already help power the payments industry. What do we mean by AI?

Artificial intelligence will transform many companies and create completely new types of businesses. Andrew Ng, cofounder of Coursera, AI Fund, and Landing.AI and Google Brain, shares how businesses can benefit. The interview was conducted by Michael Chui, a partner of the McKinsey Global Institute. I think it clarifies some interesting issues. Artificial intelligence (AI) is at the cutting edge of innovation.

Better Life Lab is a partnership of Slate and New America. Last summer, while psychological scientist Julia Shaw was visiting San Francisco with three other friends for July Fourth, inspiration struck. They had all been discussing the harassment-related firings at Uber. In some cases, complicity extended beyond the perpetrator to the human resource department: Instead of supporting the employees who came forward about the abuse, it dismissed or ignored them. Other tech companies followed the same old fashioned script: Societally, we tend to disbelieve, blame, or retaliate against victims of sexual harassment and abuse.