Fox News national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin has new details on the U.S. drone strike killing a Kataib Hezbollah commander on'Special Report.' Swiss police say a 32-year-old Iranian asylum-seeker was killed by police after he used an axe and a knife to seize more than a dozen hostages for several hours on a train in western Switzerland. The man took the hostages early Thursday evening and police, alerted by passengers, sealed off the area while the train was stopped in the town of Essert-sous-Champvert, police in the French-speaking Vaud region said Friday. The man, speaking Farsi and English, demanded that the train engineer join the 15 hostages. Nearly four hours after the incident began, police stormed the train after trying to negotiate with the man through an interpreter.

Rising concern over AI's impact on politics and the world economy was a major theme at the conference of world leaders and CEOs in Davos, Switzerland, last week. In her remarks opening the conference, Swiss President Viola Amherd called AI-generated propaganda and lies "a real threat" to world stability, "especially today when the rapid development of artificial intelligence contributes to the increasing credibility of such fake news."

The event opened Tuesday with Swiss President Viola Amherd calling for "global governance of AI," raising concerns the technology might supercharge disinformation as a throng of countries head to the polls. At a sleek cafe Microsoft set up across the street, CEO Satya Nadella sought to assuage concerns the AI revolution would leave the world's poorest behind, following the release of an International Monetary Fund report this week that found the technology is likely to worsen inequality and stoke social tensions. Over canapés and cocktails down the street at the Alpine Inn, Google CFO Ruth Porat promised to work with policymakers to "develop responsible regulation" and touted the company's investments in efforts to retrain workers.

GENEVA – Top players in global tech companies kicked off work Monday to draw up global ethical standards related to data and artificial intelligence, with Microsoft's president voicing a "sense of urgency. Some two dozen high-ranking representatives of the global and Swiss economies, as well as scientists and academics, met in Geneva for the first Swiss Global Digital Summit aimed at seeking agreement on ethical guidelines to steer technological development. The participants, including the heads of Credit Suisse, UBS and Adecco, and high-level representatives from Facebook, Google, Huawei and IBM, are due to meet again at the World Economic Forum in Davos next January. There, they will launch the Swiss Digital Initiative (SDI) and present a list of concrete projects, which could include things like the development of a "transparency label" or a "label. After the signing ceremony in Davos, "we are really going to go into practice, into implementation of concrete projects, and that is the proof of the pudding," former Swiss president Doris Leuthard, who will head SDI, told reporters.

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A protester holds a placard reading'Let's be realistic, ask for the obvious, 32h sharing of work time, Basic income, more jobs thanks to energy transition' during a demonstration called by youth organizations and students' unions on March 9, 2016, in Paris, during a nationwide day of protest against proposed labour reforms. In June of this year, Swiss voters saw an initiative on their ballots calling for an "unconditional basic income" that would "allow the whole population to lead a decent life and participate in public life." Put on the ballot by a petition drive after it was rejected in parliament, the initiative was rejected by 77 percent of Swiss voters, with 23 percent approving. The initiative lost badly, but even having a national vote on a universal basic income (UBI) shows how far the idea has come. Although people have advocated some type of universal basic livelihood or support for centuries, usually tied to concerns about poverty, recent advocacy is closely linked to fears about extensive job losses due to technology, especially artificial intelligence (AI) and robotization of work.

Given the fact that a universal income – at anything but the stingiest level – would involve redistributing untold billions in taxation from rich to poor, this seems less like "socialism with an iPad", in McDonnell's phrase, and more like socialism plain and simple. Which is perhaps why Swiss voters gave the idea a gigantic raspberry in a referendum at the weekend. Experts are increasingly convinced that computers will soon be able to do many human jobs in less time and for less money – in other words, that the pace of technological change will outpace the labour market's ability to cope. The same factories in China that undercut the West with their low labour costs are already replacing those same workers with even cheaper robots; soon, middle-class professionals in Brighton or Boston could find that they are just as vulnerable to being given the P45 by their PC.