Fox News correspondent Matt Finn has the latest on the impact of AI technology that some say could outpace humans on'Special Report.' Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said the tech industry will face a "reckoning" over artificial intelligence, comparing the potential dangers of the technology to the risks associated with social media when the platforms were first rolled out years ago. "What happened with social media is we, including myself, just offered social media because we had a simple model of how humans would use social media. But, instead, look at how social media was used to interfere in elections, to cause harm. People have died over social media," Schmidt told ABC News on Sunday.

The Food and Drug Administration announced the availability of draft guidance that provides recommendations on lifecycle controls in submissions to market machine learning-enabled device software functions. In the "Marketing Submission Recommendations for a Predetermined Change Control Plan for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning-Enabled Device Software Functions," the FDA proposes to ensure that AI/ML-enabled devices "can be safely, effectively and rapidly modified, updated, and improved in response to new data," said Brendan O'Leary, deputy director of the Digital Health Center of Excellence in the FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health, in a March 30 announcement. FDA says that companies must also describe how information about modifications will be clearly communicated to users in the PCCP. The agency explains that control plans are not just intended for the AI/ML-enabled software as a medical device – "but for all AI/ML-enabled device software functions." "The approach FDA is proposing in this draft guidance would ensure that important performance considerations, including with respect to race, ethnicity, disease severity, gender, age and geographical considerations, are addressed in the ongoing development, validation, implementation and monitoring of AI/ML-enabled devices," he said.

Last week, the Future of Life Institute published an open letter proposing a six-month moratorium on the "dangerous" AI race. It has since been signed by over 3,000 people, including some influential members of the AI community. But while it is good that the risks of AI systems are gathering visibility within the community and across society, both the issues described and the actions proposed in the letter are unrealistic and unnecessary. The call for a pause on AI work is not only vague, but also unfeasible. While the training of large language models by for-profit companies gets most of the attention, it is far from the only type of AI work taking place.

In the months after Vladimir Putin announced the invasion of Ukraine, Russia saw a mass exodus of IT workers. According to government figures, about 100,000 IT specialists left Russia in 2022, or some 10% of the tech workforce--a number that is likely an underestimate. It has now been over a year since the invasion began. The tech workers who left everything behind to flee Russia warn that the country is well on its way to becoming a village: cut off from the global tech industry, research, funding, scientific exchanges, and critical components. It's an accelerating trend that started well before the war. AI language models are the shiniest, most exciting thing in tech right now.

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WASHINGTON, April 4 (Reuters) - U.S. President Joe Biden will discuss the "risks and opportunities" that artificial intelligence poses for people, society and national security during a meeting with science and technology advisers at the White House on Tuesday, an official said. Biden, a Democrat, is scheduled to meet with the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST) on the same day that his predecessor, former President Donald Trump, surrenders in New York over charges stemming from a probe into hush money paid to a porn star. Biden has declined to comment on Trump's legal woes, and Democratic strategists say his focus on governing will create a politically advantageous split screen of sorts as his former rival, a Republican, deals with his legal challenges. "The president will discuss the importance of protecting rights and safety to ensure responsible innovation and appropriate safeguards," a White House official said in a statement ahead of Biden's meeting. "He will call on Congress to pass bipartisan privacy legislation to protect kids and limit personal data tech companies collect on all of us."

The NSW government will be taking a "deliberate but cautious" approach when implementing new artificial intelligence technology in line with citizen trust around data and AI usage. NSW government chief data scientist and industry professor at UTS Dr Ian Oppermann told an Infosys and Trans-Tasman Business Circle event that trust is a "very big issue", with his work on the NSW AI assurance framework and a multitude of other government policies. "Ultimately, there are a whole lot of other elements around trust and demonstration of trustworthiness," Oppermann said. "We need to explore what happens when things go wrong. "We need to be very clear about what we will not do with data in order to help build confidence, that we're behaving appropriately and demonstrating trustworthiness.

Fox News Flash top headlines are here. Check out what's clicking on Foxnews.com. The U.S. military said Tuesday that a drone strike carried out by the American-led coalition in northwestern Syria has killed a senior member of the Islamic State group who was in charge of planning attacks in Europe. Khalid Aydd Ahmad al-Jabouri was identified as the member killed in the strike, according to a statement from U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM). The military said the killing "will temporarily disrupt the organization's ability to plot external attacks."

From fake photos of Donald Trump being arrested by New York City police officers to a chatbot describing a very-much-alive computer scientist as having died tragically, the ability of the new generation of generative artificial intelligence systems to create convincing but fictional text and images is setting off alarms about fraud and misinformation on steroids. Indeed, a group of artificial intelligence researchers and industry figures urged the industry on March 29, 2023, to pause further training of the latest AI technologies or, barring that, for governments to "impose a moratorium." These technologies – image generators like DALL-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion, and text generators like Bard, ChatGPT, Chinchilla and LLaMA – are now available to millions of people and don't require technical knowledge to use. Given the potential for widespread harm as technology companies roll out these AI systems and test them on the public, policymakers are faced with the task of determining whether and how to regulate the emerging technology. The Conversation asked three experts on technology policy to explain why regulating AI is such a challenge – and why it's so important to get it right.

Unless you've been on a retreat in some far-flung location with no internet access for the past few months, chances are you're well aware of how much hype and fear there's been around ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot developed by OpenAI. Maybe you've seen articles about academics and teachers worrying that it'll make cheating easier than ever. On the other side of the coin, you might have seen the articles evangelising all of ChatGPT's potential applications. Alternatively, you may have been tickled by some of the more esoteric examples of people using the tool. One user, for example, got it to write an instruction guide for removing peanut butter sandwiches from a VCR in the style of the King James Bible.