Pathogenic Social Media (PSM) accounts such as terrorist supporters exploit large communities of supporters for conducting attacks on social media. Early detection of these accounts is crucial as they are high likely to be key users in making a harmful message "viral". In this paper, we make the first attempt on utilizing causal inference to identify PSMs within a short time frame around their activity. We propose a time-decay causality metric and incorporate it into a causal community detection-based algorithm. The proposed algorithm is applied to groups of accounts sharing similar causality features and is followed by a classification algorithm to classify accounts as PSM or not. Unlike existing techniques that take significant time to collect information such as network, cascade path, or content, our scheme relies solely on action log of users. Results on a real-world dataset from Twitter demonstrate effectiveness and efficiency of our approach. We achieved precision of 0.84 for detecting PSMs only based on their first 10 days of activity; the misclassified accounts were then detected 10 days later.

It might be tempting to crack jokes about today's smartphone-obsessed youth seeming to worship their devices, but for one man, the concept of technology as a deity is reaching disturbing heights. Former Google executive Anthony Levandowski has filed IRS paperwork to establish an official religion devoted to technology. Not only will this bizarre religion worship scientific progress, but it will also worship artificial intelligence and create a "godhead." According to his filing, this new non-profit religious organization, which will be known as "Way of the Future," will "develop and promote the realization of a Godhead based on artificial intelligence and through understanding and worship of the Godhead [to] contribute to the betterment of society." The papers show Levandowski as the "dean," or leader, of the new religion and the CEO of a nonprofit corporation that he has set up for the purposes of running it.

Artificial intelligence technologies are capable of disrupting every aspect of society and the United States must do more to maintain leadership in the area, the leaders of a House panel said in a report released Tuesday. Artificial intelligence "has the potential to disrupt every sector of society in both anticipated and unanticipated ways," according to a report authored by Reps. "In light of that potential for disruption, it's critical that the federal government address the different challenges posed by AI, including its current and future applications." The federal government must "increase spending on research and development to maintain American leadership with respect to AI," including spending on education and training programs so American workers can gain skills in such technologies, Hurd and Kelly wrote. The report is the result of a series of hearings that Hurd and Kelly held in the past few months on artificial intelligence technologies.

OMAHA, NEBRASKA – A 92-year-old woman has been buried in Nebraska with British military honors for a secret that she held for decades: her World War II service as a code breaker of German intelligence communications. The Union Jack was draped over Jean Briggs Watters' casket during her burial Monday, the Omaha World-Herald reported. The tribute honored Watters for her role decoding for a top-secret military program led by British mathematician Alan Turing, who was the subject of the 2014 Oscar-winning film "The Imitation Game." Watters was among about 10,000 people, mostly women, who participated in the Allied effort to crack German communication codes throughout the war. She operated an electro-mechanical machine, known as a "bombe," to decipher signals the German armed forces sent out from its sophisticated Enigma encryption machines.

Britain has successfully trialled using AI to scan for hidden attackers in a mock urban battlefield environment in Montreal, Canada. The AI, called SAPIENT, was developed in the UK with the aim of using sensors to detect potential unseen dangers to soldiers. SAPIENT is more efficient than manually scanning live feeds and frees up more soldiers to be used for operational means elsewhere. Canada and the UK maintain a close security partnership as part of the so-called'Five Eyes' alliance which also includes Australia, New Zealand, and the United States. SAPIENT was tested alongside other high-end military technologies including exoskeleton suits and new surveillance and night vision equipment.

The tribute honored Watters for her role decoding for a top-secret military program led by British mathematician Alan Turing, who was the subject of the 2014 Oscar-winning film "The Imitation Game ." Watters was among about 10,000 people, mostly women, who participated in the Allied effort to crack German communication codes throughout the war.

This undated Watters family photo via the Omaha World-Herald shows Col. John Watters and his wife, Jean Watters, on their wedding day. Jean Watters was buried Monday, Sept. 24, 2018, in Nebraska with British military honors for a secret that she held for decades: her World War II service as a codebreaker of German intelligence communications. The tribute honored Watters for her role decoding for a top-secret military program led by British mathematician Alan Turing, who was the subject of the 2014 Oscar-winning film, "The Imitation Game ." She was 18 when she enlisted in the Women's Royal Naval Service. She and her husband retired to the U.S. in 1969.

The US House Oversight and Reform IT Subcommittee today released the results of a months-long investigation into Federal investment and oversight in artificial intelligence. There's a lot to unpack here, and most of it is bad. TL;DR: If the Trump administration doesn't make drastic changes China will pass us in AI R&D spending this year, and will likely lead the globe in AI technologies long before the 2030 deadline its government issued last year. On a day when the leaders of the free world openly laughed at US President Donald Trump as he claimed to have accomplished more than "almost any other" administration in US history, a bipartisan effort back home to make the White House care about the future took the form of a research paper. Congressman Will Hurd, a Texas Republican, and Representative Robin Kelly, an Illinois Democrat, published "Rise of the Machines: Artificial Intelligence and its Growing Impact on U.S. Policy," after spending the majority of 2018 holding subcommittee hearings to interview AI experts.

A race by U.S. tech companies to build a new generation of powerful'quantum computers' could get a $1.3 billion boost from Congress, fueled in part by lawmakers' fear of growing competition from China. Legislation passed earlier in September by the U.S. House of Representatives would create a 10-year federal program to accelerate research and development of the esoteric technology. As the bill moves to the Senate, where it also has bipartisan support, the White House is showing enthusiasm for the effort with a planned quantum summit on Monday. A race by U.S. tech companies to build a new generation of powerful'quantum computers' could get a $1.3 billion boost from Congress, fueled in part by lawmakers' fear of growing competition from China. Google, Microsoft and AT&T will join more than 100 attendees at the White House's quantum summit, according to Politico.

The Top Gun pilots of the future may use radical virtual instruments instead of the traditional dials and levers. The radical system will monitor a pilot's every move, tracking their gaze and brainwaves to work out exactly what they are looking at - and predicting what they want to do next. Experts at BAE Systems say their'mindreading' technology will enable pilots to control the fighter jet of the future with the blink of an eye. The radical system will monitor a pilot's every move, tracking their gaze to work out exactly what they are looking at - and predicting what they want to do next The system would use the same augmented reality technologies being developed by tech firms to create consumer glasses that can project data on top of the real world, with Apple, Google and others all hard at work on systems. The radical system will monitor a pilot's every move, tracking their gaze and brainwaves to work out exactly what they are looking at - and predicting what they want to do next.