Last week, the New York Times noticed something that federal regulators hadn't about Tesla: that thanks to a software update this summer, occupants can now play video games on the dashboard console while the car is in motion. This would seem to be the latest example of Tesla charging ahead with a feature that could potentially endanger people in and outside its cars, and sure enough, the feds are now looking into the matter. I was also curious about the feature. So on Sunday, I went to a Maryland Tesla showroom to test drive a Model 3 while gaming, a stunt that other Tesla owners have demonstrated on YouTube. The showroom was located in a mall, which had a parking lot where I felt safe enough trying to maneuver the car.

When was the last time you walked into a bank to withdraw cash? And how often do you balance your checkbook? These once routine manual processes are now primarily digital, even leading some financial giants to proclaim themselves tech companies. While many are keeping pace with consumers' demands for digital services, few organizations are implementing the advanced automated technologies that will help them stay competitive in today's digital era. Just over half (57%) of banks and credit unions started their digital transformations before this year, according to Cornerstone Advisors's "What's Going on in Banking 2021."

On Monday Chinese Artificial intelligence and facial recognition firm SenseTime was forced to postpone its Initial Public Offering (IPO) in Hong Kong after it was on Friday added to a U.S government blacklist which bans Americans from investing in the firm or buying securities from it. The blacklisting would have rocked confidence in the IPO and lost it money, forcing it to tactically retreat until the dust settles. As the firm does most of its business in China, the loss of the United States is not expected to cause significant disruption, and it may seek to double down by seeking a second listing in the STAR market some point. However, it is important to understand why the United States is targeting such a firm, of which was first added to the commerce department entity list in 2019 alongside a host of other companies. That being, as a Chinese Company in the field of Artificial intelligence, it is operating in a domain which the US has grew to consider as a critical and strategic field of technology which it sees as intrinsic to its own geopolitical competition it is waging against China.

You don't have to own a robot vacuum or a digital assistant like Alexa or Siri to use artificial intelligence. In fact, AI has become part of our everyday lives in ways we don't even notice, let alone control. When you check your news feed on Facebook or search the internet on Google, you're interacting with AI. It offers great benefits, like robots assisting during surgery, but also gives rise to troubling moral questions. Henley, the author or coauthor of more than twenty books, brings an impressive background to this weighty topic.

Washington – The Pentagon said Monday that no U.S. troops or officials would face disciplinary action for a drone strike in Kabul in August that killed 10 Afghan civilians, including seven children. Spokesman John Kirby said Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin had received a high-level review of the strike that made no recommendation of accountability. "He approved their recommendations," Kirby said. "The secretary is not … calling for additional accountability measures." "There was not a strong enough case to be made for personal accountability," Kirby added.

"His companies have faced allegations of sexual harassment and poor working conditions; in October, a federal jury ordered Tesla to pay $137 million to a Black employee who accused the automaker of ignoring racial abuse. The businesses have also been fined for numerous regulatory violations. The feds are probing Tesla's Autopilot software, which has been involved in an alarming number of crashes with parked emergency vehicles, resulting in injuries and death. The company's expansion in China required cozying up to its repressive autocrats." So naturally, let's make him Time's Person of the Year! No one can accuse Time of rolling over for its pick.

Not a day passes without a fascinating snippet on the ethical challenges created by "black box" artificial intelligence systems. These use machine learning to figure out patterns within data and make decisions -- often without a human giving them any moral basis for how to do it. Classics of the genre are the credit cards accused of awarding bigger loans to men than women, based simply on which gender got the best credit terms in the past. Or the recruitment AIs that discovered the most accurate tool for candidate selection was to find CVs containing the phrase "field hockey" or the first name "Jared". More seriously, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt recently combined with Henry Kissinger to publish "The Age of AI: And Our Human Future", a book warning of the dangers of machine-learning AI systems so fast that they could react to hypersonic missiles by firing nuclear weapons before any human got into the decision-making process.

A computer vision engineer aims to help computers'see' through deep/machine learning and mathematical architectures in code. Computer vision engineering makes the computer more sensitive and capable of recognizing objects to provide proper outputs, a step forward to implement human intelligence into the machine. Machines must recognize and process and then act according to the observation. Computer vision engineers use software to handle the processing and analysis of large data populations to support the automation of predictive decision-making through visuals. They use large sums of data and statistics to complete complex tasks and supervise learning.

China has warned the United States that it would "strike back" in response to any "reckless" actions, urging Washington to withdraw its recent passing of sanctions targeting people and entities tied to human rights abuses committed by Beijing. The United States imposed sweeping human rights-related sanctions on Friday against Chinese individuals and entities, adding individuals and entities tied to Myanmar, North Korea and Bangladesh. China's Foreign Ministry spokesperson Wang Wenbin denounced the sanctions as "perverse actions". "We urge the US to immediately withdraw the relevant wrong decision and stop interfering in China's internal affairs and harming China's interests. "If the US acts recklessly, China will take effective measures to strike back resolutely," Wang said during a news conference in Beijing on Monday.

New York City will become the latest jurisdiction to regulate an employer's use of artificial intelligence (AI) and other "automated employment decision tools" in screening job candidates. The law is intended to curb bias in hiring and promotion decisions. Effective January 2, 2023, employers and employment agencies will be prohibited from using automated decision tools for screening employment or promotion candidates unless: (1) the tool has undergone an independent bias audit no more than one year prior to its use; and (2) certain information relating to the audit results is made publicly available on the employer's or employment agency's website. Additionally, companies will be required to notify employees or job applicants whether an AI tool was used to make employment decisions (amongst other notice requirements). NYC's law comes on the heels of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's (EEOC) announcement in October 2021 of an initiative to examine how AI technology is "fundamentally changing" the way employment decisions are made.