How global thinking on AI is shaping the world, from Berlin, Brussels, London and beyond. NEWS ABOUT POLITICO'S AI COVERAGE: Your AI: Decoded newsletter will be taking a break from this week as we refocus on core policy issues, but we are not giving up our coverage of artificial intelligence. On the contrary, we will intensify reporting on major political and policy debates on AI via news stories and events accessible to POLITICO readers around the world while covering the deeper policy stories as usual for our POLITICO Pro subscribers. As we prepare future coverage on emerging technologies including AI, I'd like to thank Melissa Heikkilä for her remarkable coverage on everything from algorithmic bias to neural networks and the politics behind large language models. In the meantime, please tune in on April 21 for our AI & Tech Summit to follow high-level interviews with top AI newsmakers, don't miss our upcoming Tech 28 ranking of the most influential players in technology on May 18 and subscribe to Mark Scott's free Digital Bridge newsletter here.

Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, or SpaceX, founded by Elon Musk in 2002, refused to give up easily. Its first three attempts to launch its Falcon 1 rocket between 2006 and 2008 failed. In 2010, the company then shifted to building a much bigger rocket called Falcon 9. Gradually, it began to deliver cargo to the International Space Station for NASA. The next decade saw the California-based aerospace company transform itself because of its ability to lower the cost of space travel drastically. On May 27, 2020, NASA launched people for the first time in 10 years aboard a rocket owned not by NASA but SpaceX: a Dragon 2 capsule on a Falcon 9 rocket.

National correspondent Bill Melugin has the latest from Eagle Pass, Texas, on'Special Report.' FIRST ON FOX: The Problem Solvers Caucus is backing legislation in the House that would extend Title 42 -- the latest sign of bipartisan pushback against the Biden administration's plans to end the public health order in May. The Biden administration announced earlier this month that it will end the order on May 23, a measure that has been used since March 2020 to quickly remove a majority of migrants encountered at the southern border due to the COVID-19 pandemic. But with growing fears that the already massive border numbers will only accelerate if the order is lifted, a number of moderate Democrats have joined with Republicans in pushing the administration to delay its move. Dec 09: 2021: A U.S. Border Patrol agent speaks with immigrants before transporting some of them to a processing center in Yuma, Arizona.

The company and law firm names shown above are generated automatically based on the text of the article. We are improving this feature as we continue to test and develop in beta. We welcome feedback, which you can provide using the feedback tab on the right of the page. April 22, 2022 - Over the past several years, comedy writer Keaton Patti has popularized "bot scripts," in which he parodically imagines how a computer might synthesize 1,000 or more hours of information and then create its own imitative work. My personal favorite was a holiday-themed romantic comedy script, in which a "business man," whose "hands are briefcases," courts a "single mother," who "cannot date because of a snow curse."

Dark data " is the glaring issue at hand; everybody knows it's there. However, undertakings would rather not address it. It's frequently viewed as "another person's concern," whether that is the IT, consistence, protection or lawful division. Dark Data has little worth if inappropriately made; it's unsafe and exorbitant to store, and every year that obligation just becomes bigger. Indeed, even the positive thinker concurs the expression "Dark Data " conveys an unfavorable undertone of a poisonous universe like in Star Wars, keen on annihilating the ton of good and splendid information.

This week, in a neatly self-referential story, an algorithm has been developed to help workers ascertain if their jobs are at risk of automation by… an algorithm. Researchers compared robotic and human abilities to identify the most at-risk jobs (meat packers and slaughterers are high risk; astronomers and neurologists are low risk) and also used the comparison to work out which lower-risk jobs people could safely and easily jump to. In other AI-defying news, people are using'algospeak' – language that will not be picked up by AI content moderation systems – to ensure their (sometimes dubious, sometimes legit) content remains live and uncensored. Examples include using'unalive' instead of'dead' and the corn emoji instead of'porn'. As well as screening out properly dodgy content, moderation algorithms have been found to censor already marginalised groups, demonetising and down-ranking posts that include words such as'gay', and'racist'.

Stone once described arms races as the inevitable product of there being "no limit to the ingenuity of science and no limit to the deviltry of human beings." This dark truth about the era of human-controlled "kinetic" weapons of mass destruction that so concerned Stone remains true today of the emerging range of increasingly automated systems that may now be fusing scientific ingenuity with a silicon-based deviltry of all its own. For most of history, from stones to siege guns, warfare consisted of hurling some amount of mass with sufficient energy to do serious harm. The general trend has been toward increasing mass and energy, giving weapons greater range. Yet, until the first automated guidance systems came into play during World War II, the "information content" of weaponry was quite small, reducing accuracy.

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The United States has disclosed details of its latest military aid package to be used by Ukraine's forces in the country's east after Russian forces this week launched a full-scale offensive in the region. The new $800m assistance package includes a new unmanned aerial weapons system, or drone, dubbed the Phoenix Ghost. Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said the drones, which are produced by a US company, Aevex Aerospace, are particularly well suited for the fight in Ukraine's east, in the flat and open terrain of the region known as Donbas. "Without getting into the specifications, but the kinds of things this drone can do lend itself well to this particular kind of terrain," Kirby told reporters on Thursday. "I think I'm just going leave it at that. But its purpose is akin to that of the Switchblade … which is basically a one-way drone, an attack drone. And that's essentially what this is designed to do".

Although autonomous vehicles frequently steal the media spotlight, Tanya Mohn argues that there are more practical, immediate ways to use artificial intelligence to improve traffic safety. As Mohn writes, "Artificial intelligence is already being used to enhance driving safety: cellphone apps that monitor behavior behind the wheel and reward safe drivers with perks and connected vehicles that communicate with each other and with road infrastructure." According to David Ward, president of the Global New Car Assessment Program, there are several "beneficial, low-cost, intermediate technologies that are available now. A prime example is intelligent speed assistance, or I.S.A., which uses A.I. to manage a car's speed via in-vehicle cameras and maps," a technology that will soon be mandatory in the European Union. Other technologies include cameras that can assess distracted driving behavior, allowing law enforcement to see whether a driver is holding a phone below the dashboard, for example.