The European Commission's AI regulation proposal is a proposal for a regulation of the European parliament and of the Council laying down harmonized rules on artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Act and amending certain union legislative acts (published in April 2021). Its explanatory memorandum explicitly aims to implement, among others, an ecosystem of trust by proposing a legal framework for trustworthy AI and the word trust is mentioned several times (14 trust, 1 trusted, 2 trustful, 21 trustworthy, 3 trustworthiness, 6 entrusted, 1 entrusting). This is somewhat surprising from a Swiss legal point of view. Indeed, under Swiss law, trust (German: Vertrauen / Italian: Fiducia / French: Confiance) is never mentioned, for example, in the Swiss Civil Code, in the Code of Obligations, nor in the Federal Product Liability Act, which constitute fundamental legal bases. However, we start seeing this trend also in Switzerland: The second key objective of the Digital Switzerland Strategy is guaranteeing security, trust and transparency.

The United Nations has urged a moratorium on artificial intelligence systems, such as face scanning and social credit systems, that could be a threat to human rights. Michelle Bachelet, the high commissioner for human rights, said countries should ban AI applications that do not comply with international law. Applications that should be prohibited include government "social scoring" systems that judge people based on their behaviour and certain AI-based tools that categorize people into clusters such as by ethnicity or gender. AI-based technologies can be a force for good but they can also "have negative, even catastrophic, effects if they are used without sufficient regard to how they affect people's human rights," Bachelet said in a statement. Her comments came with a new UN report that examines how countries and businesses have rushed into applying AI systems that affect people's lives and livelihoods without setting up proper safeguards to prevent discrimination and other harms.

MedTech Europe has called for the urgent clarification of a proposed artificial intelligence regulation because it uses an overly broad definition and is misaligned with existing regulatory frameworks. The European Commission outlined its plans to regulate AI, including medical devices and in vitro diagnostics that feature the technology, earlier this year. Under the proposal, the European Union would require high-risk AI systems to "comply with certain mandatory requirements" before coming to market. The Commission acknowledged a risk of overlap with existing regulations but envisioned the framework complementing requirements such as the Medical Devices Regulation. However, MedTech Europe contends the proposal falls short of that vision.

You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International license. For artificial intelligence to get any smarter, it needs first to be as intelligent as one of the simplest creatures in the animal kingdom: the sea slug. Researchers have found that a material can mimic the sea slug's most essential intelligence features. The discovery is a step toward building hardware that could help make AI more efficient and reliable for technology ranging from self-driving cars and surgical robots to social media algorithms. "Through studying sea slugs, neuroscientists discovered the hallmarks of intelligence that are fundamental to any organism's survival," says Shriram Ramanathan, a professor of materials engineering at Purdue University.

The United States announced a new alliance Wednesday with Australia and Britain to strengthen military capabilities in the face of growing rivalry with China, including a new Australian nuclear submarine fleet and cruise missiles. The announcement of the alliance -- made in a video meeting by President Joe Biden, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison and his British counterpart Boris Johnson -- is sure to raise hackles in Beijing. It also met with swift pushback from France, which has been negotiating a multi-billion-dollar sale of conventional submarines to Australia. Biden said the work to enable Australia to build nuclear-powered submarines would ensure that they had "the most modern capabilities we need to maneuver and defend against rapidly evolving threats." The submarines, stressed Biden and the other leaders, will not be nuclear armed, only powered with nuclear reactors.

When it comes to technology, artificial intelligence (AI) is a hot topic. As more designers and programmers integrate AI into their online platforms, it's clear that AIs are more than just science fiction. In fact, using artificial intelligence is well on its way to becoming a standard practice. One of the many industries interested in advancing AI to enhance its tech is cybersecurity. For some, AI programs offer exciting capabilities that reinvent what users expect from security services.

Contrastive explanations for understanding the behavior of black box models has gained a lot of attention recently as they provide potential for recourse. In this paper, we propose a method Contrastive Attributed explanations for Text (CAT) which provides contrastive explanations for natural language text data with a novel twist as we build and exploit attribute classifiers leading to more semantically meaningful explanations. To ensure that our contrastive generated text has the fewest possible edits with respect to the original text, while also being fluent and close to a human generated contrastive, we resort to a minimal perturbation approach regularized using a BERT language model and attribute classifiers trained on available attributes. We show through qualitative examples and a user study that our method not only conveys more insight because of these attributes, but also leads to better quality (contrastive) text. Moreover, quantitatively we show that our method is more efficient than other state-of-the-art methods with it also scoring higher on benchmark metrics such as flip rate, (normalized) Levenstein distance, fluency and content preservation.

Fox News correspondent Bill Melugin reports live from Del Rio, Texas, as border crisis intensifies and migrant facilities are overrun. Fox News drone footage over the International Bridge in Del Rio Texas shows thousands of migrants being kept there as they wait to be apprehended after crossing illegally into the United States -- as local facilities are overwhelmed and the crisis at the border continues. Border Patrol and law enforcement sources told Fox News that over 4,200 migrants are waiting to be apprehended under the bridge after crossing into the United States. The new footage shows how the migrant crisis that has rocked border states, with a knock-on effect in states across the country, appears to be far from over. Click here to see the footage.

Calithera is running registered clinical trials on its products to study their safety, whether they're effective in patients with specific gene mutations, and how well they work in combination with other therapies. The company must collect detailed data on hundreds of patients. While some of its trials are in early stages and involve only a small number of patients, others span more than 100 research centers across the globe. "In the life-sciences world, one of the biggest challenges we have is the enormous amount of data we generate, more than any other business," says Behrooz Najafi, Calithera's lead information technology strategist. Calithera must store and manage the data while making sure it's readily available when needed, even years from now.

Many sci-fi movies have painted artificial intelligence (AI) to be an omen of humanity's demise. The first cinematic appearance of AI was in a 1927 silent German film, "Metropolis." Throughout the entire film, a humanlike robot had the sole intention of wreaking havoc throughout the city. Despite this initial negative depiction of AI, technology has been racing toward the development of advanced artificial intelligence. According to Forbes, "AI-focused companies raised $12 billion in 2017 alone."