New York City grocers are expressing outrage over a push by city council members to ban facial recognition technology stores rely on to deter shoplifting due to concerns of racial discrimination. Ferreira Foodtown CEO Jason Ferreira joined "Fox & Friends" Tuesday to call out the suggestion as thefts continue to rock businesses in the Big Apple. Ferreira, who has been in business for over 45 years, said the shoplifting has never been worse. "It's not only people that are doing it professionally. We have people that are doing it just because they can get away with it. And the gamut runs from children to people that are older."

While lawmakers in the House (and soon, the Senate) call for a "blue-ribbon commission" to study the potential impacts of AI on American society, President Biden on Tuesday met with leaders in the emerging field to discuss and debate the issue directly. The President met with Tristan Harris, executive director of the Center for Human Technology; Fei-Fei Li, Co-Director of Stanford's Human-Centered AI Institute; and Jennifer Doudna, Professor of Chemistry at UC Berkeley, among others, at the Fairmont hotel in San Francisco. Staying atop the growing swell of AI technology advancements in recent months and years, specifically the emergence of generative AI systems, has become a focal point for the Biden administration. Generative AI systems hold the promise to revolutionize many sectors of the economy and drastically reimagine the nature of modern office work. However, those same systems could just as likely wipe out entire professions, as the fields of digital art and journalism are now experiencing.

Did you ever get to the end of Wizard of Oz and have notes – the nagging intuition that you could have taken down all those pesky flying monkeys or handled the backstabbing intricacies of Munchkin guild politics more effectively than Dorothy and her band of misfits did in the books? Thanks to the new AI storytelling platform Hidden Door, which plops players into TTRPG-like adventures based in their favorite literary universes, you'll soon have the chance to walk the Yellow Brick Road however you see fit. Hidden Door is both the company and the game. Hidden Door, the company, was co-founded by Hilary Mason, who is also CEO, and Matt Brandwein in 2020 with a mission to "inspire creativity through play with narrative AI." The staff is split nearly evenly between machine learning engineers and traditional game designers, Mason told Engadget.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. A Turkish drone attack killed two Kurdish local officials and their driver in northeast Syria on Tuesday in the latest such strike in the war-torn country, officials said, as talks on Syria's conflict began in Kazakhstan. The Kurdish-led authority in northeast Syria said Tuesday's strike hit a car near the town of Qamishli, killing the co-chairperson of the town's council, Yusra Darwish, and her deputy, Liman Shweish, as well as their driver. An additional local officials was wounded in the attack.

The wheels of government have finally begun to turn on the issue of generative AI regulation. US Representatives Ted Lieu (D-CA) and Ken Buck (R-CO) introduced legislation on Monday that would establish a 20-person commission to study ways to "mitigate the risks and possible harms" of AI while "protecting" America's position as a global technology power. The bill would require the Executive branch to appoint experts from throughout government, academia and industry to conduct the study over the course of two years, producing three reports during that period. The president would appoint eight members of the committee, while Congress, in an effort "to ensure bipartisanship," would split the remaining 12 positions evenly between the two parties (thereby ensuring the entire process devolves into a partisan circus). "[Generative AI] can be disruptive to society, from the arts to medicine to architecture to so many different fields, and it could also potentially harm us and that's why I think we need to take a somewhat different approach," Lieu told the Washington Post.

Haywood Talcove, the CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions' Government division, told Fox News Digital that he believes there will be over $1 trillion in artificial intelligence-assisted fraud if U.S. doesn't act quickly. The White House said Tuesday it will soon take "decisive actions" to get ahead of the rapid advancement of AI technology. "The White House Chief of Staff office is overseeing a process to rapidly develop decisive actions we can take over the coming weeks," a White House official said. "White House principals have met to discuss this issue 2-3 times a week in addition to ongoing daily work being done across the White House and agencies," the official added. "White House officials are also working on securing commitments from leading AI companies to combat challenges from the government and the private sector side."

Former President Donald Trump defends himself against allegations he mishandled classified documents on'Special Report.' Former President Donald Trump's trial on 37 federal felony counts is poised to begin on August 14, a judge announced Tuesday. Federal Judge Aileen Cannon announced the preliminary court date Tuesday, but the final date for Trump's trial is likely to change as the former president's legal team is expected to request a delay. Trump has vowed to continue his 2024 presidential campaign despite his legal jeopardy. Trump is accused of 37 counts, including willful retention of national defense information, conspiracy to obstruct justice and making false statements.

A lot of people, it seems. Hundreds of scientists, business leaders, and policymakers have recently made public pronouncements or signed open letters warning of the catastrophic dangers of artificial intelligence, from deep learning pioneer Geoffrey Hinton to California congressman Ted Lieu. We've been here before: AI doom follows AI hype. But this time feels different. What were once extreme views are now mainstream talking points, grabbing not only headlines but the attention of world leaders.

President Biden is scheduled to meet researchers and advocates with expertise in artificial intelligence on Tuesday in San Francisco as his administration attempts to tackle potential dangers of a technology that could fuel misinformation, job losses, discrimination and privacy violations. The meeting comes as Biden ramps up efforts to raise money for his 2024 reelection bid, including from tech billionaires. While visiting Silicon Valley on Monday, he attended two fundraisers, including one co-hosted by entrepreneur Reid Hoffman who has numerous ties to AI businesses. The venture capitalist was an early investor in Open AI, which built the popular ChatGPT app, and sits on the board of tech companies including Microsoft that are investing heavily in AI. Experts Biden is expected to meet with Tuesday include some of Big Tech's loudest critics.

Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions' government division, told Fox News Digital that he believes there will be more than $1 trillion in artificial intelligence-assisted fraud if U.S. doesn't act quickly. Artificial intelligence smashed the floodgates to unprecedented fraud that could cost taxpayers hundreds of billions, if not $1 trillion, over the next 12 months, an expert told Fox News Digital. Haywood Talcove, CEO of LexisNexis Risk Solutions' government division, which evaluates and predicts risk, said he's already seeing criminals on the dark web using people's faces to steal from government and state agencies. Benefits to America's most vulnerable communities, such as Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid, and unemployment, are ending up in the pockets of criminals and criminal enterprises that are operating all over the world. "Being one of the wealthiest countries in the world makes us a huge target," Talcove said.