First, the futurist Amy Webb told the audience of journalists, librarians and foundation managers that they could easily be duped by the ever-growing purveyors of artificial intelligence. Images of their faces could be affixed to others' bodies, their voices to impostors. Media people have acknowledged to pollsters that they are so focused on the present that they don't pay close attention to what might be in store for them in five, 10 or 20 years. Later in her talk Wednesday before the Knight Media Forum in Miami, Webb told people of color that they weren't thought about when the creators of self-driving cars, GPS navigators, robotics and other such technologies were being developed. "My question is, what does all this mean for communities of color?" (video) asked Sara Lomax-Reese, president and CEO of black talk-formatted WURD radio in Philadelphia. She was one of about 500 at the sold-out conference sponsored by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation. "It's not good," replied Webb. "Any person of color who's ever felt invisible, you're totally invisible to the networks. Right?" said the author of the 2016 book "The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream: Forecast and Take Action on Tomorrow's Trends, Today."

Victor Schwartz is a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of the Kansas City-based law firm of Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P. He chairs the firm's Public Policy Group, which seeks to be the vanguard of developing public policy issues that will help improve the civil justice system. Mr. Schwartz has been an advisor for each of the American Law Institute's (ALI) Restatement (Third) of Torts projects: Products Liability, Apportionment of Liability, and Liability for Physical and Emotional Harm. He is a life member of the ALI. Prior to entering the full time practice of law, Mr. Schwartz was a professor and dean at the University of Cincinnati College of Law.

Sophia the robot is a celebrity in its own right. It has been on chat shows, given speeches and was even made a citizen of Saudi Arabia. Before I "met" Sophia, I was given a sheet of guidelines by the company behind it, Hanson Robotics. Don't talk to the robot about sex, religion or politics, it said. Ask direct questions and remember it is not a fortune teller - it can't tell you whether you'll be rich or find love.

You've perfected your CV, got great experience under your belt, maybe a PhD and can wrangle data amongst the finest but just how prepared are you for your next interview? Just the thought of the face-to-face interview stage is enough to strike fear into the bravest of us. Here are a few things to keep in mind and stave off the sweaty palm syndrome. How well do you know yourself? First things first, prepare to be an expert in YOU.

SHAQIB Shaik is a software engineer at Microsoft. His artificial intelligence (AI)-driven mobile phone that he helped develop, is able to read out loud a menu sheet as it hovers over the menu. His AI-powered sunglasses, another of his invention, enables him to receive an audio commentary of the scenes observed through the glasses. We have AI helping Indonesia map out flood-prone areas even as AI helps the UAE to predict inclement sand storms. AI helped Mexico City map out its hitherto uncharted web of bus routes.

It's a widely accepted fact--at least in my circle of recent college grads--that Tinder, and the world of online dating writ large, is a wasteland. The lure of carefully curated profiles, relative anonymity, and endless swiping seem to bring out the worst behavior--catfishing, terrible bios, and misogyny abound. And even when motives are pure, the nagging idea that there's a better match one swipe away tends to make Tinder interactions feel like placeholders. This, combined with the fact that men swipe right on anything that moves (meaning women are forced to second-guess every single one of their matches), makes the entire situation feel like a huge time suck with little chance of romantic reward. An Oxford study revealed that about half of conversations between matches were one-sided, meaning the other person never responded.

Hi there, could you tell us a little about Benevolent AI and your motivations as a company? Despite the huge growth of knowledge, scientific discovery has not changed for 50 years. It's impossible for humans alone to process all the information potentially available to advance scientific research. A new scientific paper is published every 30 seconds, there are 10,000 updates to PubMed every day. Consequently, only a small fraction of globally generated scientific information can form'useable' knowledge.

We explored that topic this week with Rafael Reif, president of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, following the announcement of the MIT Intelligence Quest, an effort to "discover the foundations of human intelligence" to develop better technology, especially artificial intelligence. Reif has been MIT's president since 2012. An electrical engineer by training, he has been outspoken in his defense of funding for basic scientific research. He was in Seattle this week to talk with alumni about MIT's plans for the future of education, research, and innovation. We spoke about all of those topics, plus diversity in the tech industry and Boston's bid for Amazon HQ2, on this episode of the GeekWire Podcast. Listen to our full conversation in the player below, and continue reading for edited excerpts. Subscribe to the GeekWire Podcast on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

Future robots could kill humans in a'murderous' rage if humans don't take steps to stop them, a prominent futurist has claimed. Dr Michio Kaku believes we can put a stop to the killer robots by simply embedding chips in their brains to control their thoughts. Robots could be smart enough to'become dangerous' before the end of this century, Kaku warned during a question and answer session on Reddit. 'I think we should chip their brain to shut them off if they have murderous thoughts,' he explained. The humanoid robot'Alter' (pictured) has sensors that mimic the neural network of the human brain.

Better Life Lab is a partnership of Slate and New America. In 2017, Starbucks made headlines with its unequal paid family leave policy. Baristas got one set of benefits, and corporate staff got another. Within the benefits offered to baristas (those who "wear an apron"), moms who gave birth got six weeks of paid family leave. Starbucks, long known for its culture of empowering "partners" (as their employees are all called), received a barrage of frustrated employee feedback.