A joint statement from the U.S. Representative to the United Nations on behalf of a coalition of European countries has urged the U.N. to investigate Russia's use of Iranian drones in Ukraine. "Earlier this month, the United States released further information documenting how Iran has provided Russia with hundreds of one-way attack UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), as well as UAV production-related equipment. Ukraine and the U.K. also submitted evidence to the U.N. of Iranian UAVs recovered by the Ukrainian armed forces," Linda Thomas-Greenfield, United States Ambassador to the United Nations, told reporters. "Russia has not only procured hundreds of Mohajer and Shahed series UAVs from Iran in clear violation of Resolution 2231, but it is also now working with Iran to produce these weapons inside Russia," she continued, reading a statement on behalf of the U.S., the U.K., France, Ukraine and Albania. "Russia has been using these UAVs in recent weeks to strike Kyiv, destroy Ukrainian infrastructure, and kill and terrorize Ukrainian civilians. Media reports indicate just this week Russia targeted Kyiv and other Ukrainian cities with dozens of Iranian-made drones," she said, adding, "The United Nations must respond to growing calls from the international community to investigate these violations."

A video of a Coca-Cola being instantly crushed by water pressure gives an idea of what likely happened to the destroyed Titan submersible that claimed five lives. The pressure chamber on board OceanGate's 22-ft vessel suffered a'catastrophic implosion', authorities revealed on Thursday, and the men aboard tragically perished. The implosion would have been caused by a sudden change from low to high pressure inside the sub, possibly triggered by a defect in the sub's walls. Experts say the crew and passengers would have been crushed within a fraction of a millisecond, an event so fast it would have been over before they realized what was happening and so violent it's unlikely to leave anything but a mist of human remains. A video posted by James Hambley, a YouTuber who goes by the alias Barded Science Guy, shows a similar implosion happening to a Coke can.

The US government is asking qualified members of the public for help in figuring out how to seize opportunities and overcome challenges associated with generative AI. Gina Raimondo, the US Secretary of Commerce, has announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is launching a public working group for AI technologies that can generate content, including text, images, videos, music and code. The group will also help the agency develop key guidance that organizations can follow to address risks brought by generative AI tech. According to the agency, the group will be composed of volunteers with technical expertise from the private and public sectors and will work together via a collaborative online workspace. To start with, the group will gather input on how the NIST AI Risk Management Framework -- the framework the agency developed to "better manage risks to individuals, organizations and society associated with artificial intelligence" -- may be used to support the development of generative AI tech.

Center for AI Safety Director Dan Hendrycks explains concerns about how the rapid growth of artificial intelligence could impact society. When Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., announced a "major effort" in April to put the Senate's imprint on artificial intelligence policy, he talked about having an "urgency to act" and said a legislative plan would start taking shape in a matter of weeks. "In the coming weeks, Leader Schumer plans to refine the proposal in conjunction with stakeholders from academia, advocacy organizations, industry, and the government," he said in an April 13 statement. But on Thursday, more than two months later, Schumer indicated that legislation may not be ready until 2024. In Wednesday remarks to the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Schumer said the process of getting input for the plan is still months away.

The U.N. Secretary-General's envoy on technology, Amandeep Gill, discussed with Fox News Digital the need to try and align global policy on the emerging artificial intelligence technology, which has "tremendous" potential. The United Nations sees an urgent need for an artificial intelligence (AI) watchdog group but understands that member states must first align on general policies and interests before any such agency could form. "The urgency is very clear in the U.N.'s perspective," Under-Secretary-General and U.N. Tech Envoy Amandeep Gill told Fox News Digital in an interview. Gill has led the way on the U.N.'s efforts to establish an advisory committee on AI policy, which the organization expects to have up and running by the end of the year. The committee is something the U.N. can establish since it has no governing power, and any watchdog agency must come from the member states and the U.N. can only act with what power the members provide it.

College volleyball player Macy Petty reacts to the U.S. House passing a bill that would ban biological males from competing in women's sports on'Fox News @ Night.' An NCAA volleyball player claims ChatGPT scolded her when she asked the artificial intelligence platform to shorten a tweet about the debate over transgender athletes participating in women's sports. "I was trying to explain [in the tweet] that I'm an NCAA athlete, and that it's important to champion the voice of female athletes and to stand up against this ideological war that's going on that's putting women in danger and taking away the opportunities for scholarships," Macy Petty told Fox News Digital in a phone interview Thursday, explaining it was "a lot of information to cram in one tweet." Petty said she is novice when it comes to using ChatGPT - OpenAI's wildly popular chatbot that can mimic human conversation based on prompts - and had seen an Instagram reel touting the importance of using the platform as the future of technology. After watching the reel, Petty said she was presented with a great opportunity to use the system: Allegedly asking ChatGPT to shorten a tweet on women's sports that had gone over the social media platform's character limit.

Digital minister Taro Kono is eager to promote the active use of generative artificial intelligence by central government staffers, expecting "a big benefit" from it. The use of AI will provide "a great benefit at central government workplaces as long as learning data is handled carefully," Kono said in a recent interview. Kono said office work would be done far more easily by utilizing AI, which can automatically generate texts and images. For example, by inputting the full text of a government white paper into an AI-powered program, officials would be able to easily create a summary or presentation slides, Kono said. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software.

We describe a significant emerging trend away from the techno-solutionist approach to problems that seeks to create and understand a new paradigm: a productive interplay between algorithms and people.

The National Institute of Informatics (NII) is a national-level research and services institute focusing on informatics in Japan. NII was formally established in 2000 by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology (MEXT). Located in downtown Tokyo, approximately 80 permanent researchers conduct computer science research in various fields. In addition, NII provides networking and information services for more than 1,000 research and educational institutions in Japan. This article describes NII's activities in these two complementary missions: research and services that support research (as illustrated in Figure 1).

Assistive or enabling technologies aim to create more accessible and inclusive solutions for people living with disabilities. This is critical, since many such users rely on technology for daily activities such as mobility and communication. While the problems are global, there are unique challenges that exist in the Asia Pacific region when it comes to developing assistive technologies, particularly assistive devices. The United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (UN ESCAP) estimates that 650 million people in the Asia-Pacific region live with a disability.4 It is also well understood that disability statistics in the region could be significantly underreported.