The European Union is in the final stages of crafting first-of-its-kind legislation to regulate harmful uses of artificial intelligence. However, as it currently stands, the proposed law, called the EU AI Act, contains a lethal blind spot: It does not ban the many harmful and dangerous uses of AI systems in the context of immigration enforcement. We, a coalition of human rights organisations, call on EU lawmakers to make sure that this landmark legislation protects everyone, including asylum seekers and others on the move at Europe's borders from dangerous and racist surveillance technologies. We call on them to ensure AI technologies are used to #ProtectNotSurveil. Europe's borders are becoming deadlier with each passing day.

There's just nothing like that "new car smell," many people believe. There is a health angle to consider, though. A recent study by the Beijing Institute of Technology and the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, published in the journal Cell Reports Physical Science, found that the cabin of a new vehicle contained 20 common "volatile organic compounds" (VOCs), which could potentially contain cancer-causing agents. The Environmental Protection Agency defines VOCs as "compounds that have a high vapor pressure and low water solubility," which are found in paints, pharmaceuticals and petroleum fuels. In particular, the study found high levels of formaldehyde (34.9%) and acetaldehyde (60.5%) inside a new car.

AI developments from generating videos, voices, pictures and human-like conversations are growing rapidly, lawmakers say they are trying to keep up. WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the ramifications of AI's growing ability become increasingly apparent, lawmakers on Capitol Hill graded their understanding of the new technology from one to 10. "I put my knowledge on a scale of one to 10 at about a 1.5," Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis said, giving herself the lowest rating among the politicians who spoke with Fox News. Another Republican, Rep. Nancy Mace of South Carolina, had the most confident response. "I'd say it's eight or nine," she said. Elon Musk and more than 1,000 others in March called for an immediate pause on "giant AI experiments," warning the rapidly developing sector may pose security threats.

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The city of Yokosuka in Kanagawa Prefecture has a few claims to fame: It's home to a major U.S. naval base, it's the birthplace of former Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, and it lends its name to a local variation of Japanese curry. On Thursday, it staked out another as the first municipality in the country to use ChatGPT in its municipal offices. Roughly 4,000 employees at Yokosuka's municipal government office began using the artificial intelligence-powered chatbot, which was created by OpenAI late last year, for a one-month trial in efforts to improve operations. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software. Please add japantimes.co.jp and piano.io to your list of allowed sites.

The U.S. has enjoyed superiority in military technology since the end of the Cold War. But this edge is being rapidly eroded by its main rival, China, which seems determined to become a global leader in technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML) that could potentially revolutionize warfare. As Beijing focuses on a defense strategy for what it calls the "new era," the aim is to integrate these innovations into the People's Liberation Army, creating a "world-class" force that offsets U.S. conventional military supremacy in the Indo-Pacific and tilts the balance of power. How important AI has become for China's national security and military ambitions was highlighted by President Xi Jinping during the 20th Party Congress last October, where he emphasized Beijing's commitment to AI development and "intelligent warfare" -- a reference to AI-enabled military systems. This could be due to a conflict with your ad-blocking or security software.

Fake AI pictures and videos will be nearly impossible to discern from real images as the technology behind deepfakes advances, University of California, Berkeley professor says. AI-generated pictures, videos and voices -- called deepfakes -- are so believable and widely available that people will soon not be able to discern between real and manipulated media, an image analyst told Fox News. "What's important about deepfakes is not, 'oh, we can manipulate audio, images and videos'--we've always been able to do that," said Hany Farid, a professor at University of California, Berkeley's School of Information. "But we've democratized access to technology that used to be in the hands of the few, and now are in the hands of the many." "When we enter this world where any audio, image or video can be manipulated, well, then how do you believe anything?"

Tech experts Louis Rosenberg, Neil Sahota, and Jake Denton discuss the dangers of AI taking jobs and influencing the way people think. Halting the development of artificial intelligence in America would only give more power to China to develop its own AI technology that favors its communist political system and increase the chances that China's AI system becomes the global standard, technology experts warned senators this week. A subcommittee of the Senate Armed Services Committee heard testimony from AI experts on Wednesday, nearly a month after Elon Musk, Steve Wozniak and dozens of other tech luminaries called for a "pause" in AI development until its "profound risks to society and humanity" are better understood. But at the subcommittee hearing, experts warned of the dangers of such a pause, especially the risk that China might continue to develop AI and dominate the field while the U.S. delays. Sen. Mike Rounds, R-S.D., said he opposes the idea of a development pause, and asked if the U.S. should "expect that other competitors around the world would consider taking a break."

Fox News contributor Joe Concha joins'Fox & Friends First' to discuss Elon Musk's warning that artificial intelligence could threaten elections and his concerns on the declining birth rate. A government watchdog group Tuesday requested that Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey investigate a tax-payer-funded Missouri State University business boot program that excluded White males. In a letter to Bailey's office, the Equal Protection Project (EPP) alleged that Missouri State University (MSU) was "engaging in racial- and gender-based discrimination through its sponsorship, promotion, and hosting of a small business training'boot camp' that limits participation" to women and people who identify as "BIPOC" – an acronym for non-white "Black, Indigenous and Persons of Color." MSU began accepting applications for the Spring 2023 Early-Stage Business Boot Camp program in late November. The university said the program was for "aspiring or current BIPOC and/or women small business owners who have recently started or are in the idea phase" and live in Southern Missouri.

The dual use of machine learning applications, where models can be used for both beneficial and malicious purposes, presents a significant challenge. This has recently become a particular concern in chemistry, where chemical datasets containing sensitive labels (e.g. toxicological information) could be used to develop predictive models that identify novel toxins or chemical warfare agents. To mitigate dual use risks, we propose a model-agnostic method of selectively noising datasets while preserving the utility of the data for training deep neural networks in a beneficial region. We evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method across least squares, a multilayer perceptron, and a graph neural network. Our findings show selectively noised datasets can induce model variance and bias in predictions for sensitive labels with control, suggesting the safe sharing of datasets containing sensitive information is feasible. We also find omitting sensitive data often increases model variance sufficiently to mitigate dual use. This work is proposed as a foundation for future research on enabling more secure and collaborative data sharing practices and safer machine learning applications in chemistry.