To prevent the United States from falling behind competitor nations like China, when it comes to the development of artificial intelligence-based technologies, the Trump administration has proposed vague regulatory guidelines that would limit potentially innovation-stifling governmental "overreach." The news comes amid the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas, the largest annual trade show for the technology industry. That makes sense, given that each year, CES includes a slew of vendors that demonstrate AI-based tech. In a blog posted to the White House website and shared as a Bloomberg op-ed, Michael Kratsios, chief technology officer of the U.S., wrote that it's a "false choice" to have to choose between moral values and advancing emerging AI technology. "As part of the Trump Administration's national AI strategy--the American AI Initiative--the White House is today proposing a first-of-its-kind set of regulatory principles to govern AI development in the private sector," he wrote.

More than a decade ago, Internet analyst and new media scholar Clay Shirky said: "The only real way to end spam is to shut down e-mail communication." Will shutting down the Internet be the only way to end deepfake propaganda in 2020? Today, anyone can create their own fake news and also break it. Online propaganda is more misleading and manipulative than ever. Deepfakes, a specific form of disinformation that uses machine-learning algorithms to create audio and video of real people saying and doing things they never said or did, are moving quickly toward being indistinguishable from reality.

Artificial intelligence has evolved from an esoteric research topic--with its origins six decades ago in corporate and academic computer science labs--into a collection of powerful technologies with mainstream business promise and applicability. Deloitte's global AI study finds that, in organizations adopting AI, more than eight in 10 leaders see AI as "very" or "critically" important to their business success in the next two years.1 AI adoption and spending are surging globally. According to one report, 37 percent of organizations have now deployed AI--a 270 percent increase from four years ago.2 Analysts project global spending on AI to top US$35 billion in 2019 and more than double to US$79.2 billion by 2022.3 What is driving this tremendous upswing? Many foresee AI helping to spur enormous productivity gains over the next decade, making it essential to the competitiveness of national economies.4

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My holiday reading this year was Gregory Zuckerman's The Man Who Solved the Market, which I finished in one long sitting on Christmas Eve. It tells a fascinating story of the legendary Jim Simons and his secretive hedge-fund firm, Renaissance Technologies. Without a doubt, Simons has an extremely successful career. Simons started a side project on the mathematical analysis of stock trading strategies when he worked at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA) as a Cold War codebreaker. After the IDA fired him for publicly speaking out against the Vietnam War, Simons joined the faculty at Stony Brook University, where he recruited top talents from across the country and built a world-class math department.

HR leaders predict how cultural, social, and technological shifts will impact the way people work in the coming year. Not too long ago, HR professionals were relegated to the realm of "personnel management"--paper-pushers responsible for administrative tasks and little else. But as organizations have grown and globalized in increasingly challenging environments, so has the role of human resources. Today's HR departments are deeply rooted in organizational planning and business strategy, more essential to the success of a company than ever before. HR leaders have made their way to the C-suite, guiding strategies that unite the goals of a business under one umbrella: talent.

Fortunately, an artificial intelligence-driven system in your vehicle is looking after you. The system automatically checks on your flight--still on schedule--and determines your chances of making it to the gate on time are slim. With your permission, it can proactively book an alternate flight. "That's the true virtual assistant in the future," says Gartner vice president and fellow David Cearley. "Rather than having conversational interfaces respond to discrete things, it understands the context and can respond to (your) intent."

Robots already assemble and weld products in factories. Can they make the components parts themselves, too? Although it may not be obvious, there's a close link between manufacturing technology and innovation. Elon Musk often talks of the "machines that build the machines" as being the real enabler in both his space and automotive businesses. Using less-expensive, more scalable processes allows Space X to launch missions on budgets and with speed that would be unthinkable using NASA's old-school manufacturing methods.

DUBAI, UNITED ARAB EMIRATES – Iran's acknowledgement that it shot down a Ukrainian airliner, killing 176 people, raises new challenges for the Islamic Republic both externally amid tensions with the U.S. and internally as it deals with growing discontent from its people. The country did itself no favors by having its air-crash investigators, government officials and diplomats deny for days that a missile downed the flight, though a commander said Saturday that he had raised that possibility to his superiors as early as Wednesday, the day of the crash. While its paramilitary Revolutionary Guard took responsibility, the same commander claimed it warned Tehran to close off its airspace amid fears of U.S. retaliation over Iran launching ballistic missiles at Iraqi bases housing U.S. forces. That retaliation never came, but the worries proved to be enough to allegedly scare a missile battery into opening fire on the Boeing 737 operated by Ukrainian International Airlines. Wider tensions between Iran and the U.S., inflamed after Iran's top general was killed in Iraq by a U.S. drone strike on Jan. 3, have for the moment calmed. However, President Donald Trump vowed to impose new sanctions on Tehran and on Friday, his administration targeted Iran's metals industry, a major employer.